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...through the Northern Italian cities of Padua, Bolzano and Mestre, looking for clues and searching abandoned houses. Meanwhile, six antiterrorist experts from the U.S. Defense Department rushed to the scene. Yet by week's end the biggest manhunt since the 1978 assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro had come up empty. There was still no hint of the whereabouts of Brigadier General James Dozier, 50, the U.S. Army officer held by Italy's terrorist Red Brigades...
...leftist red Brigades had attacked an American during their eleven-year campaign to destroyItaly's Establishment. Terrorism in Italy peaked in 1978, when 2,395 terrorist attacks were attributed to Italy's left and right including the Brigades' kidnaping and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. But a police crackdown, aided by the testimony of Brigades and other terrorists turncoats, has led to 1,650 arrests across the ideological spectrum and has reduced the number of terrorist acts to about 900 this year...
...indistinguishable from those on the VOA or England's BBC World service. This new sophistication, however, does not exclude an unfounded allegation here and there. Soviet media actively spread the word, for example, that the U.S. was responsible for the 1978 kidnaping and murder of former Italian Premier Aldo Moro. In addition, events often have to be filtered through an ideological bureaucracy before they are reported. For example, news of the death of former Prime Minister Alexei Kosygin was withheld for 36 hours by TASS and Radio Moscow. Even Soviet citizens heard the news first on Western broadcasts...
...corrupt, discredited bureaucracy. A high-ranking judge remained in the hands of his terrorist kidnapers. A Cabinet officer had resigned in a spreading oil-tax scandal which may involve $2.2 billion. The national mood, and respect for political authority, was probably at its lowest point since former Prime Minister Aldo Moro was kidnaped and murdered by the Red Brigades in 1978. A published opinion poll revealed an electorate so disaffected that 55% rejected all of Italy's political parties...
...scandal is the country's biggest since the Lockheed bribery fiasco that forced President Giovanni Leone to resign two years ago. It has already brought almost 100 arrests, and has cast suspicion on the martyred figure of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Reason: his right-hand man, Sereno Freato, 52, has been questioned about accumulating $17 million worth of investment properties during four years when he declared only $7,500 in annual taxable income. In addition, the scandal has also given the Communists and other opposition groups ammunition against the five-week-old government of Christian Democratic Prime Minister...