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...atrocities committed by the Red Brigades, none shocked the world as much as the murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978. Kidnaped near his house in Rome after his five bodyguards were gunned down, Moro was found 55 days later shot to death and stuffed in the trunk of a car. Justice was finally meted out last week. In Italy's largest trial of terrorists, a jury found 59 leftist guerrillas guilty of the Moro killing and of 16 other murders...
Conducted in a fortress-like Rome gymnasium guarded by several hundred police and carabinieri, the trial lasted nearly nine months and involved testimony from 298 witnesses. Throughout the proceedings, the defendants, 18 of whom were women, were penned in six steel cages, while those who had become informants were protected by bulletproof glass. As one of the cooperative terrorists walked to his seat last week, a defendant yelled, "You would sell your own mother...
...frenzied. French President François Mitterrand and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko were on missions to Bonn last week, and Vice President George Bush will arrive in the West German capital next week. In Britain, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher set forth her position in the House of Commons; in Rome, the Pope outlined his in an address to the Vatican diplomatic corps. With pressure building on all sides, President Reagan defended his record on arms control at an impromptu press conference and held a publicized meeting the next day with his chief negotiators. "Arms control is the next big issue...
...addition to Commentator Alan Abelson, who is editor of the business publication Barron's Weekly, NBC has Reporters Jensen, a New York Times alumnus, and Irving R. Levine, a longtime correspondent in Moscow and Rome who pioneered the beat starting in 1971. Levine is sometimes regarded by critics as behind the times, perhaps because he rarely uses flashy graphics. He urges an administrative change, already undertaken at rival ABC, that would, he says, greatly improve coverage: designation of a pool of specialized producers (ABC has five) to work on economics. Says Levine: "Not having to initiate a new person...
...death has set off a worldwide orgy of necrolatry. While she continues to inspire plays, books and lyrics, the beautiful blond whom Norman Mailer called "the sweet angel of sex" is being all but drowned in a flood of tacky tribute. Boutiques and stores from San Francisco to Rome have found an apparently inexhaustible market for such mementos as life-size cardboard stand-ups, 3-D posters, calendars, bed sheets, shopping bags, masks, hot-water bottles ("Take me to bed. I will keep you warm"), piggy banks, pepper shakers, ashtrays, pillboxes (a cruel touch), shower curtains and, yes, negligees...