African students at Patrice Lumumba University, were assaulted during the Brezhnev era.
On the Baader-Meinhof website discussion board http://www.baader- meinhof.com/ it is mentioned that "Carlos The Jackal" aka Ilich Ramírez Sánchez that he was a student there. Interesting articles in Asia Times on Carlos, Syrian intelligence and Stasi, http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/ED19Ak04.html
From amazon.com review of Stasi chief Markus Wolf autobio... Markus Wolf was the head of East Germany's foreign intelligence service. As such, he gathered and disseminated to his Soviet sponsors many of the deepest top secrets of the whole era. A good example of the mirrors-within- mirrors nature of Wolf's world is his description of his service's interactions with celebrated terrorist Carlos the Jackal. Wolf relates that whenever Carlos came to East Berlin, the spymaster's main concern was "getting him out of the country as soon as possible." But this proved difficult because well, Carlos was a terrorist not above turning on his hosts. Indeed, Wolf reveals that while Carlos was a guest of his government, he made threats against East Germany's Paris embassy and that the reaction was not to expel him, but to beef up embassy security. Similarly, Wolf tells how the 1986 La Belle disco bombing in West Berlin, which killed two U.S. soldiers and resulted in a U.S. reprisal air strike against Libya, involved East Germany's knowing admission through border control of Libyan diplomats with explosives in their luggage. Here, Wolf questions the notion that such terrorists were worth coddling for their usefulness in any all-out war against the West. You have to wonder if he also did so in his old job. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
The New Yorker, Robert Harris ... a curious biography--defiant, apologetic, bitter, funny, sordid, boastful, sad. It is also unexpectedly well written and, mostly, entertaining.
On Stasi also see, Stasi: The Untold Story of the East German Secret Police by John O. Koehler http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/- /0813337445/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/002-0140687-2044863?v=glance&s=books&st=*