Anti-terrorist force planned
(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter —Copyright)
BONN, September 27.
West Germany would start building up a 176-man mobile anti-terrorist force next month, the Interior Minister (Mr HansDietrich Genscher) announced yesterday.
Based in Bonn, the force would be equipped with helicopters and ultimately will be within 45 minutes range of any place in the country, he said in a statement. The formation of the unit, which is to receive the most modern weapons available, was prompted by the killing of 11 Israeli Olympic sportsmen in Munich earlier this month.
measures after receiving information that Arab guerrillas were planning actions against the Israeli and American exhibits. The Israeli publishers will be represented at the fair as planned and a number of Jewish publishers and authors from the United States and other countries have said they will attend. The spokesman also revealed a settlement of the controversy over this year’s peace prize of the West German book trade, which is to be awarded posthumously next Sunday to the PolishJewish educationalist, Janusz Korczak, murdered in Treblinka concentration camp. He said that the prize of 10,000 marks (about $NZ2776) would be sent to an orphanage in Warsaw as planned but that a similar sum would also be gi’’en to the Israeli Janusz Korczak Memorial Committee.
It will comprise sharpshooters, arms and explosives experts, and a variety of technical specialists. They would be trained in psychology and law as well as armed and unarmed combat, the statement said. It said that the force would operate by next April in densely-populated regions. Meanwhile, in Frankfurt, special security measures were in force to protect Israeli participants in the twenty-fourth international book fair from possible A spokesman for the fair, which opens today, said that police decided on the
The Israeli Publishers’ Organisation had protested that there were no Jewish children at the orphanage in question.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 33033, 28 September 1972, Page 17
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