Word: autobianchi
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...Middle Eastern thriller. Three young Palestinian terrorists slip across the Lebanese border into Israel, where a man with a Lebanese passport and a woman with one from the U.S. supply them with weapons. Then, on a sunny morning last week, the three drive a rented red Autobianchi up crowded King George V Street in West Jerusalem. Two of them enter a sporting-goods store and, in Arab-accented English, nervously ask to try on some jeans...
...makings of a chase seen out of The Godfather, Friday, September 3rd, 9 p.m.--General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa, prefect of Palermo, emerges from his office after another full day of work. Waiting outside, at the usual time, is his wife Emmanuel, seated behind the wheel of their Autobianchi. The couple heads back to home at Villa Paino: several vehicles (police don't know how many) follow close on. At the appointed intersection, automatic weapons spray 40 rounds of ammunition at the car from point blank range. The murderers disappear into the night, leaving behind a smoking wreck of shattered...
Even as police tramped the hillsides in search of Dozier, the Brigades struck again. A tiny Autobianchi A112 car moved unnoticed through the deserted streets of Rovigo, 40 miles southeast of Verona, and parked next to the walls of the town prison. Four masked men leaped from the car and began spraying machine-gun fire at two guards in a watchtower. In the prison courtyard, four women inmates who were Red Brigades members heard the shots and overpowered a guard. Then the car exploded, killing a pedestrian, shattering windows within a quarter-mile radius and blowing a 4-ft-wide...
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