European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - November 09, 1994, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Is f1i a Soldier guards a parking lot at Usa eur Headquarters in Heidelberg where one of two bombs exploded in 1972. Unrepentant German Radical faces parole by Rick Atkinson the Washington Post for More than two decades Jrmgard Moeller has Given no Quarter and shown no remorse. Not when she swapped the values of a privileged Middle class girl for those of a Radical leftist not when she killed three . Soldiers in a 1972 bombing. Not when she was sentenced to life in prison for murder. And not How when authorities Are contemplating whether to set Moeller free after 22 years in jail. A founding member of the Baader Meinhoff terrorist gang later known As the red army faction Moeller remains unrepentant regarding both her violent past and her victims. Der Spiegel Magazine recently quoted her As asserting that the armed struggle was  nevertheless Moeller has become a cause be Ere whose release is loudly supported by clergy writers politicians and her Warden. Now 47 and the longest serving female inmate in Germany she is also a Martyr of the far left having survived 12 hunger strikes and a mass suicide that claimed the lives of other Baader Meinhoff leaders in 1977. Although the German press has predicted Moeller s imminent parole the Issue has not been officially decided according to judge Klaus Fink of the state court in Lubeck the Baltic coastal City where Moeller is serving her sentence. Prosecutors defense attorneys and other authorities must first meet to consider her petition for Early release and review her psychological evaluation Fink said. Moeller refused to cooperate with the evaluation reportedly claiming it was Only intended to prove that anyone Here who dares. To show resistance must obviously be  but on the / basis of observing her behaviour at various Legal proceedings a court appointed psychologist recently concluded that she to longer poses a threat to society. . Authorities have sidestepped the Issue of whether Moeller has sufficiently atoned for he Moeller crimes. Don t s have anything to say on this Case a spokesman for the . Embassy in Bonn said. A spokeswoman for . Army Europe s Headquarters in Heidelberg scene of Moeller s bomb attack added that parole is always within the Purview of the Host  for Germany the Moeller Case has ramifications beyond the fundamental question of when Justice should be tempered with mercy. Bonn has forged a fragile peace with the red army faction which waged a 20-year Campaign of violence in the name of the struggle against imperialism and monopoly  the Radical left has not killed anyone since 1991, with the exception of a botched arrest last year that left a policeman and a fugitive terrorist dead. Freeing Moeller May be promoted As a Token of Good Faith by government authorities. Some Legal experts predict that her parole will be followed in Short order by the release of other red army faction stalwarts. Seven others still in jail have served at least 15 years each. Thus is Moeller s Case freighted with political As Well As judicial significance. Her history like that of so Many who joined the red army faction in f Germany or the red brigades in Italy or action direct in France is that of a Well educated child of privilege whose rebellion against Bourgeois values turned violent according to Der Spiegel As a student in Munich in 1968 she became Ever More deeply involved in political protests and left Wing extremism. Eventually she linked up with Andreas Baader who had set fire to a Frankfurt department store to liberate his countrymen from consumerism and sexual repression and Ulrike Meinhoff who helped Baader escape from prison. The Baader Meinhoff gang and the red army have been tied to about 50 murders including a number of prominent German business and political leaders. But in the 1970s their favorite targets included the . Military As ostensible instruments of american imperialism and the genocide waged in Vietnam. On May 24,1972, Moeller and a companion drove two explosives Laden cars onto the . Base in Heidelberg. The dual blasts Tore capt Clyde r. Bonner s body in half and killed two other soldiers Charles l. Peck and Ronald a. Woodward. Moeller was arrested six weeks later and has been in jail Ever since. Closer look red army Germany keep uneasy truce the German judicial system has been accused in recent years of being Blind in the right Eye that is showing leniency in the prosecution and sentencing of far right Wing or xenophobic offenders while cracking Down on Radical leftists. But in trying to balance Justice with the government s desire to nurture Domestic Tranquillity a willingness to forgive if not forget has gained momentum. On oct. 21, German officials released Ingrid Jacobsmeier 40, who had served two thirds of a 15-year sentence for a 1981 red army attack on Ramst Einab that wounded 17 people. In May outgoing president Richard von Weizsacker pardoned be hard roessner who had served 19 years for a 1975 red army attack on the German embassy in Stockholm in which four people were killed two other faction members jailed for the 1987 bombing of an aviation Plant in Southern Germany were paroled last year after renouncing violence. Although investigators have Long contended that the red army faction never had More than two dozen or so hard Core killers and another 200 to 300 fringe supporters a spokesman for the Federal prosecutor recently said there is no Concrete Way to estimate How Many members there Are  those still at Large have remained mostly dormant. Responding to government peace feelers the red army issued a statement in 1992 pledging to no longer attack leading representatives of the Economy and the state while awaiting further moves from Bonn. That uneasy arrangement has More or less held although the red army last year blew up a new $ 100 million prison in Weiter Stadt outside Darmstadt shortly before its grand opening. The path to a political solution has been somewhat complicated by information obtained from the files of the Stasi the former East German secret police and testimony from one time red army members who had taken Refuge in the East. That evidence has led to new charges and new trials threatening to reopen old wounds. Last november for example Rolf Klenens Wagner already serving a life sentence for the 1977 murder of a German business executive was Given another life term for the attempted assassination of . Gen. Alexander Haig when he was nato s supreme commander the Washington Post 8&s fun a red army faction bomb at Ramstein a in 981 overturned cars and injured 17 people. Wednesday november 9,1994 the stars and stripes 17