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...communicate the completed execution of the President of the Christian Democrats, Aldo Moro, by means of suicide. The body is submerged in the muddy waters of Lake Duchessa. -Red Brigades Communiqué No. 7 April...
...could he refuse? After Robert Rue, president of Mohegan, and Creative Writing Teacher Jim Coleman had decided on the contest, Rue sent Asimov a communiqu...
Police said the signature and handwriting appeared to be authentic. According to Luciano Infelisi, the chief judicial investigator on the case, the letter also seemed to show every sign of having been written under duress. It was accompanied by the Red Brigades' third communiqueé, but once again the kidnapers failed to specify any demands for Moro's release. Typed on the same IBM electric as the first two communiqués, it merely gave another menacing progress report: "Moro's interrogation is proceeding with the complete collaboration of the prisoner...
...action did not daunt Moro's captors, who last Saturday night issued "Communiqué No. 2" almost simultaneously in Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa. The 1,700-word message, a rambling revolutionary harangue about the "menace of imperialist terrorism," made no demand for an exchange of prisoners. It did claim that Moro was being "interrogated" and warned that he would be given "proletarian justice." The police said they had no reason to doubt the authenticity of the ominous communiqu...
...symbolism at home, the President seemed to be trying his hand at the same game overseas. Apart from a possible upward blip in the popularity polls, however, he left home anticipating no heavy returns from this trip or the one in March. Said a senior U.S. official of the communiqués that were being drafted for each stop: "They will be remembered for less time than it takes to write them...