Word: messaggero
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...infamous terrorist gang (see box), produced a Polaroid photograph of the captured Moro and a handbill warning that he would be subjected to a "people's trial." The typewritten flyer, emblazoned with the awkward five-pointed Red Brigades star, was sent mysteriously to Rome's daily Il Messaggero and left in a phone booth near the RAI state-run TV headquarters. It did not otherwise state any specific demands for Moro's release, but said further communiques would follow. Nonetheless, there was a growing belief that foreign extremists, probably Germans, had helped plan Moro's abduction...
...skeptical that he was a kidnap victim. Nobody had actually seen him captured, and police learned that the fun-loving youth had joked with friends about how easy it would be to stage his own kidnaping. Then, early in November, an envelope was delivered to the Rome daily Il Messaggero. It contained a lock of reddish hair and a severed human ear. "This is Paul's first ear," read a typewritten note. "If within ten days the family still believes that this is a joke mounted by him, then the other ear will arrive. In other words, he will...
...Still, the job is far from finished; about another 200 palazzi, churches and buildings remain to be rescued. That badly needed work will soon start, when Italy at last moves to save one of man's unique and exquisite creations. "La Serenissima," editorializes the daily Il Messaggero, "should rise again...
Chivalry. The indecent exposure of the ex-First Lady excited Europe, where Jackiemania is still rampant, and enthralled Italians of both sexes. "It was the women, above all, who were curious," observed Rome's Il Messaggero. "Not very sexy," purred one Italian matron, "and a little bit wooden." Milan's Il Giorno noted chivalrously-and accurately-that Jackie's figure, at 43, is "still elegant, slim, and young...
Dante did, however, make his point. Rome's Il Messaggero editorialized that "once poor Christians were thrown to the lions in the Colosseum. Now other poor Christians go there who have no other way to make themselves heard." Eventually, a city hall official climbed up to give Dante a letter promising him the license he wanted; feverish and weary, Dante climbed down from his aerie. Rome's embarrassed city council issued a statement that future requests for municipal favors "must always follow the stipulated administrative norms," but that may be easier said than enforced. Two days later, four...