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...Western world had a different opinion of who was responsible. The left-of-center Rome daily La Repubblica summed up the reaction in the bold headline THE HAWKS OF MOSCOW HAVE WON! The West German tabloid Bild carried a similar refrain: HONECKER, NYET! Said a top-ranking U.S. official: "This has got to impress everyone in the East bloc. They all want more autonomy, but the message from Moscow is that there are limits...
...This is a place much better than anyone could have imagined. People are so open, so friendly and helpful," Piero Benetazzo, a correspondent for La Repubblica, an Italian newspaper, said...
...formed last spring by six young would-be terrorists who wanted to join the Red Brigades. So the Brigades gave them an initiation test: silence Tobagi. Mission accomplished, they were evidently given a second assignment: kill Giorgio Bocca, a special correspondent for Rome's daily La Repubblica and a columnist for the weekly Italian newsmagazine L'Espresso. The plot fizzled when Bocca was alerted to two suspicious-looking young men loitering near his house last June, and called police. The men escaped. Other journalists are believed to have been marked for assassination by the March 28 group...
Friends and family members refused at first to believe that the six could be terrorists. One of the incredulous was La Repubblica Reporter Guido Passalacqua, 37, who was wounded in Milan last May by the same gun that killed Tobagi. Last week when police showed him pictures of his accused attackers, Passalacqua recognized two of them. Said he, pointing to a photograph of Giordano: "But he's a friend of mine. We've had dinner together many times. He's a friend. I don't understand .'' He was not alone...
...most of the bereaved relatives had preferred to bury their dead privately as an act of protest against a state they blamed for failing to check terrorism. In other cities throughout the country, tens of thousands of demonstrators staged protest strikes against the bombing. Concluded the Rome daily La Repubblica: "Never has the gulf between the real country and the legal nation been greater...