West Germany’s Minister of Interior said In a published interview today that he would take “strong and energetic” measures to combat Arab terrorist acts against civilian airliners and their passengers, Hans Dietrich Genscher also said in the interview published by Die Welt, that he considered the Arab governments co-responsible for harboring terrorist organizations. A Foreign Ministry spokesman said later that the great majority of Arabs living in the Federal Republic were not responsible for terrorist acts and a distinction should be made.
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