Word: terrorist
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...endured a Kafkaesque nightmare: nearly three years in prison without any resolution of their case. Their plight has focused attention on what Turin's moderate newspaper La Stampa called "the injustice of justice" in Italy, and has drawn the sympathy of concerned citizens who have little use for terrorist bombings or anarchism...
...bank shortly before the explosion. He later testified that police told him the photograph "was the one I had to recognize." The cabby, who happened to be an alcoholic, died of cirrhosis of the liver before Valpreda came to trial, leaving unanswered the question of why a terrorist would risk identification by riding a taxi for so short a distance. Also the driver's testimony was given a futura memoria, "for use in future," without Valpreda's counsel being present, which in Italy is unconstitutional. Despite such striking deficiencies in the case against them, Valpreda and his colleagues...
Adding to the confusion is the recent discovery of evidence suggesting that Valpreda and his friends may be innocent. Last August district attorneys who were investigating other terrorist acts charged two neo-Fascists with the Milan bombing. A consignment of 50 clockwork timers, exactly like those used in the bombings, was traced to one of the suspects, a bookseller from Padua named Franco Freda. Furthermore, the briefcases in which the bombs were hidden were all purchased in a Padua store only a block from Freda's bookshop. Worst of all, it now appears that high-ranking police officials tried...
...have tossed rocks through embassy windows and sent Arab diplomats letters calculatedly filled with frightening detail. "The fact that you are married to an English girl will not help," goes one such letter. "We have watched you drive unharmed around London in a blue Mercedes while your country condones terrorist activities. Don't blame anyone if something happens to you." Says one recipient: "I used to stroll along Oxford street on my lunch hour...
...were the work of a Manson-style gang, some residents of Barrington Hills were even said to have started carrying shotguns to cocktail parties. Last week the gang theory gained some credence. Chicago police announced that they had arrested nine black youths who are members of a little-known terrorist group that calls itself...