Word: christian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While sending you a friendly greeting, l am obliged by these difficult circumstances to present to you some realistic thoughts, fully aware of your responsibilities, which I respect ... I am considered a political prisoner and being tried, as president of the Christian Democrats, for my responsibilities of the last 30 years ... Weigh your actions carefully in order to avoid further evil... In the given circumstances, besides humanitarian reasons, what becomes apparent is the reason of state. Most of all this reason of state means that in my present condition I find myself under full and uncontrolled domination. There...
That signed, handwritten, five-page letter was purportedly from kidnaped Christian Democratic leader and former Premier Aldo Moro. Addressed to Italy's Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga, it was delivered simultaneously last week to newspaper offices in Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa. The grave, poignant message never said so directly, but the suggestion it contained was unmistakable: it was an appeal to Italian authorities to bargain with the Red Brigades terrorists who had abducted Moro two weeks earlier...
...explain how, though the implicit thought was that the Church might be used as an intermediary-as indeed it has offered to be in several terrorist cases before. The government kept a strict official silence on the letter. But after deliberations, the ruling Christian Democrats, as well as the Communists and other parties, agreed that the answer to negotiating with the kidnapers must...
...terrorism, it has the most to benefit from the fear pervading the country. While on one hand the Communist Party assuages the fear that it condones such violence giving the party an air of respectability, on the other hand forces outside the party make it clear that the Christian Democrats must relinquish more power...
International Week-- "Difficulty in Reporting and Interpreting Foreign News for American Press," with Geoffrey Godwell, foreign news editor, Christian Science Monitor, and Crocker Snow, editor World Paper. 277 Science Center...