Terrorist Gets Life for Role in Bombing

A leftist terrorist was convicted and sentenced in Frankfurt to life in prison for killing two U.S. soldiers and a civilian and attempting to murder the president of Germany’s central bank. Birgit Hogefeld--a member of the Red Army Faction, which waged a sporadic war of killing and kidnapping against the establishment in the 1970s and 1980s--received the sentence after last-minute appeals to hear more witnesses were rejected by the five-judge court. Hogefeld, 40, was convicted of involvement in the 1985 bombing of the U.S. Air Force Rhein-Main Air Base in Frankfurt in which a U.S. airman and a civilian were killed. Another soldier was killed before the bombing so that his identity card could be used to gain access to the base.