Word: christiane
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Bret Schundler '81 is an executive of the Harvard Christian Fellowship...
...communiqué, which was discovered only two days after an earlier deadline for Moro's life had passed, once again threatened his execution. Yet even Socialists and some Christian Democrats who had favored negotiating with the terrorists agreed that the proposed prisoner exchange was an impossible demand. After another huddle with party leaders, Premier Giulio Andreotti confirmed that the government's tough stand was "a political and moral duty" that was "definitive." Yet another letter from the tragic victim was received at week's end. In it, Moro, quite possibly under duress, begs his Christian Democratic colleagues...
...Brigatisti, however, did leave a new trail of blood with two hit-and-run attacks. In the first, Girolamo Mechelli, 54, a Christian Democratic politician, was jumped by two gunmen who pumped five bullets into his legs. In Turin, two men and a woman shot Sergio Palmieri, 41, a Fiat labor relations official, also in the legs, as he left for work. At week's end these terrorists were still at large. Authorities, however, issued arrest warrants for six men and three women who were charged with Moro's abduction and the killing of his five bodyguards...
...Brigades a measure of the political recognition they seemed to crave. But it appeared to have no direct effect. Pleas from Moro's family have also come to naught. Throughout the ordeal, the family's tragic situation has often put it at odds with both the Christian Democrats and the government's investigating authorities. The family wants a negotiated release, while the government and the party feel compelled to reject any bargaining...
...judgments. Brazil's bishops, for example, seemed in no mood to pussyfoot last week. Their own agenda for Puebla focused on "glaring social inequities" and "unjust division of land," and cited the enormous gap between rich and poor as "a social scandal in a continent thought to be Christian." At Puebla, the bishops' concluding statement urged, there must be "prophetic criticism of the socioeconomic and political systems reigning in Latin America." Medellin, obviously, will not be set aside, even on orders from Rome, without a struggle...