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...corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when the minority Christian Democratic government of Premier Francesco Cossiga collapsed and plunged the country into what Rome politicians call a crisi al buio: a crisis in the dark. It was the 38th government to fall...
...attack at the Olympic Village in Munich in 1972. Twenty-five died when terrorists opened fire in the Tel Aviv airport the same year. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy turned life for European executives into a routine of paranoid precautions. Former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped and executed. With grotesque ingenuity, Italian terrorists practiced "kneecapping"-blowing holes in their victims' knees. Hijackers in the '70s forced every major airport in the world to search passengers and X-ray luggage...
...picture evokes painful memories of the comparable photo of Aldo Moro before he was murdered by his Red Brigades abductors last year. More than that, if the allegations were even partly true, they would set off a Vesuvius of scandal. The group claiming to hold Sindona, the Proletarian Committee of Subversion for Better Justice, is unknown to Italian police, and some authorities still believe Sindona may be only pretending. Lawyer Guzzi theorizes that the kidnapers may be on a fishing expedition, seeking incriminating evidence that could be used for extortion. Says he: "I don't believe for one moment...
ROME--Police yesterday apprehended Prospero Gallinari, a founder of the Red Brigades and the alleged organizer of the abduction and kiling of former Premier Aldo Moro...
...infuriates Italy's terrorists as the spectacle of the democratic process at work. Just as the campaign for the country's early June parliamentary elections was beginning, the ruthless Red Brigades staged their most spectacular urban guerrilla attack since their abduction and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring. Striking in the heart of Rome, a band of as many as 20 brigatisti swarmed into the district headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party not far from such tourist attractions as Piazza Navona and Via Condotti...