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West Germany's radical gangsters call themselves the Red Army Faction. The Italian terrorists who kidnaped and eventually killed former Premier Aldo Moro flaunt themselves as the Red Brigades. Noting the similarity both in names and methods, many Europeans have wondered about possible links between the two organizations. Did West Germany's R. A.F., for instance, have a direct hand in Moro's murder, as many believe? Last week two new and unexpected clues to that puzzle came to light. They added up to?maybe...
...Aldo Moro was a man of peace, patiently endeavoring to bring some semblance of order to strife-torn Italy. His death [May 22] brings to mind the words of George Bernard Shaw at the time of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: "This shows how dangerous it is to be too good...
Italians had reasons for both hope and alarm last week following the obsequies for assassinated former Premier and Christian Democratic Leader Aldo Moro. In local elections affecting two provinces and 816 cities and towns, voters turned out in record numbers (3.4 million, or 10% of the electorate). Shunning the extremes, they cast their ballots for the parties of the political center and handed an unexpected loss to Italy's Communist Party. But as if to prove that the country would have no reprieve from violence, terrorists of the Red Brigades and other radical groups carried out a series...
...insistence of Aldo Moro's wife and children on a private funeral was understandable: the more the Christian Democrats refused to bargain for Moro's life, the deeper became Eleonora Moro's bitterness. But the privacy request would have been typical of the Moros under any circumstances "Their main characteristic," said a family friend, "is a reserve that is almost pathological...
...DIED. Aldo Moro, 61, leader of Italy's Christian Democratic Party and the man who was most likely to become the country's next President; of gunshot wounds inflicted by terrorists (see WORLD...