Word: brigatisti
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Dates: during 1978-1978
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...Polaroid snapshots of Moro while he was being held, tapes of Moro's interrogation by his captors, detailed minutes of a kangaroo court that decided his fate, complete lists (including prices) of all materials used in the kidnaping, written critiques of the abduction and other operations by the brigatisti, photostats of letters Moro wrote during his captivity, as well as other letters he wrote that were never sent. There was also reported to be a complete list of the places where Moro was held in Rome...
...Curcio, founder of Italy's notorious Red Brigades, and 45 other defendants were brought to trial in Turin in 1976 on charges of subversion and other crimes, Genoa Chief Prosecutor Francesco Coco was gunned down. One of the defendants announced in court that the murder was committed by brigatisti, and the trial was postponed. Then, shortly before the court was to convene again a year later, Fulvio Croce, president of the Turin Bar Association and newly appointed chief defense counsel, was murdered. Once again, the trial was postponed. Finally, last March the proceedings resumed. Despite yet another murder...
...problem of dealing with the threat posed by the Red Brigades is a difficult one. Even though the brigatisti's war against Italian society goes back more than a decade, little is known about the young, shadowy terrorists who operate under the vague revolutionary motto "Vogliamo tutto e subito (We want everything and now)." Estimates of their strength range up to 500 hard-core recruits organized into small cells, or "columns...
Founder Renato Curcio, 36, and 150 other brigatisti are currently in jail or on trial for numerous crimes -39 murders, 30 kidnapings, ten jail breaks and a variety of subversive activities. But the organization continues to grow, and so does its appetite for mayhem. When Curcio, then a sociology student, formed the group in 1969, its activities were largely limited to rhetoric about the need for "an armed proletariat vanguard" to do battle against "the imperialist state of the multinationals." In the early 1970s, the group moved from vandalism and arson into a new field: kidnapings of plant managers...
...brigatisti apparently have some links to terrorist organizations in other countries, such as West Germany's Red Army Faction and various Palestinian groups. There is even some speculation that they have a Czech connection, although the evidence-like the Czech-made pistol used in Moro's killing-remains tenuous at best. But Italian officials are convinced that there is an important difference between the Red Brigades and say, the West German terrorists who operate in virtual isolation. The Red Brigades enjoy considerable support from left-wing organizations in Italy, which, at a time of lingering 7.4% unemployment (nearly...