Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sessions. Crowds poured into the piazzas of the cities to vent their anguish and their frustration. Most supported the government's refusal to negotiate with the Red Brigades terrorists for Moro's life. Some did not. One small band of protesters marched outside the headquarters of the Christian Democrats, shouting: "It is you who have killed...
...Czech-made Skorpion 7.65-mm pistol and a still unidentified 9.-cal. handgun. Eight shots were centered around his heart. The hatchback Renault in which the body had been placed was left on a narrow, one-block street, Via Michelangelo Caetani, almost equidistant from the nearby headquarters of the Christian Democrats and the Communists. The location was a contemptuous taunt at both of the parties that Moro, more than anyone else, had worked to bring closer together in a political accommodation aimed at keeping Italy's government functioning...
...same day that the governing agreement he had succeeded in obtaining, bringing the Communists into the parliamentary majority, was to be voted on in parliament. In a series of haranguing "communiqués," the kidnapers pointedly indicted their victim as his party's "political godfather" while attacking the Christian Democrats as "antiproletarian criminals" and the Communists as so many "bourgeois revisionists." Their attempt failed; both parties sensed the danger to the political process, and the government refused to bargain for Moro's life...
Shortly before 1 p.m. last Tuesday, an anonymous man telephoned the Christian Democratic headquarters. "Go to Via Caetani," he said. "A red Renault. You will find another message." Police quickly spotted the maroon Renault 5-L and its grim contents. An autopsy showed Moro had been shot earlier that morning, then dressed in the same navy suit coat he wore when he was kidnaped. There was also a partly healed bullet wound in his buttocks, apparently incurred in the abduction...
...parallel convergences," which he used to describe the center-left formula for the 1963 D.C.-Socialist coalition-even while laughingly noting that "geometrically this is impossible, but politically it is feasible." After the 1976 election, when the Communist Party vote spurted to 34% of the total-close behind the Christian Democrats' 39% -Moro promoted the gradual process of accommodation between the two. When many members of his own party rebelled against the present governing agreement that formally ushered the Communists into the parliamentary majority for the first time in 31 years, it was Moro who persuaded them...