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...covering the work of the Red Brigades and the murder last week of Aldo Moro was directed for TIME by Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante, whose parents are Italian. The story had its problems. Says Bonfante: "The main difficulty was the 'gray-out' that authorities imposed from the outset, clamping down hard on information to avoid giving any help to the terrorists and to minimize the sensationalism on which the Red Brigades thrive...
...Cathedral of St. John Lateran to honor the man who had been Italy's Premier five times. While hundreds of Italian leaders, including Communist Party Boss Enrico Berlinguer, and representatives of 100 countries stood in hushed silence, Pope Paul VI devoted a special prayer to his personal friend, Aldo Moro. The Pontiff asked "that our heart may be able to forgive the unjust and moral outrage inflicted on this dearest...
...Aldo Moro has been pitilessly and horrifyingly slain. The beast who tried to cover the kidnaping with a political and ideological cloak failed to listen to the cry from the whole of mankind that this man be spared. With his death, barbarity seems to want to kill not a man, but thinking and intelligence and liberty. Yet while this death appalls and disturbs, it will never succeed in defeating us. In that way, a tragic error has been committed by these wretched heirs of the most barbarous assassins that mankind has known. " -Giovanni Leone, President of Italy, on television last...
...seemed almost inevitable, but still it came as a sickening shock. Two months after he had been kidnaped on his way to parliament and his five bodyguards slain, Aldo Moro, 61, president of the Christian Democratic Party and Italy's most eminent statesman, was brutally assassinated, his body left in the back of a stolen car parked in the historic center of Rome. The cruel ordeal was over, but the grief and anger over his murder had only begun...
Much of the White House press corps has grown increasingly unimpressed with Carter's abilities. But his studied absence was regarded as something less than a diplomatic bombe. Said the Chicago Tribune's Aldo Beckman, president of the Correspondents' Association: "It is a terrible mistake for us to take ourselves so seriously that we think that the President of the U.S. has to come to our dinner...