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That shooting in downtown Rome, carried out by a member of the dreaded Red Brigades, was one of three brazen assassinations of Italian judicial officials last week. Terrorists also gunned down noted Jurist Guido Galli in a 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...
...during the Moro affair, the scholarly, multilingual Cossiga, 51, turned out to be unexpectedly engaging and energetic. In Parliament he managed to put across a comparatively tough package of antiterrorist legislation, and despite Communist opposition, won approval for basing NATO's new, intermediate-range nuclear cruise missiles on Italian soil...
...alternative that none favors: new national elections. Both the Socialists and Christian Democrats are divided on the issue of Communists in the government. Meanwhile, Berlinguer's party is showing signs of discord over his moderate policies and charges by ultraleftists that Communism has become part of the Italian establishment...
...Kotz was jailed for 30 months for gambling and fined $5,000; yet he said le could pay only $10 a month, because ae had to support his "aging Italian parents." In fact, he managed to pay a mere $40 in six years, even though he went on gambling trips to Las Vegas, where he tad a $10,000 line of credit at Caesars Palace. Startled by the Kotz and Godfrey cases, the U.S. Attorney's Ofiice in the capital has been reviewing its long list of cons in arrears...
DIED. Manlio Brosio, 82, Italian diplomat who, as Secretary-General of NATO from 1964 to 1971, helped contain the damage of Charles de Gaulle's exit from the alliance; in Turin, Italy. A leader of Italy's small, right-of-center Liberal Party, Brosio helped coordinate the anti-Fascist resistance in World War II, later served as Defense Minister and envoy to Moscow, London, Washington and Paris...