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...week began with yet another of the terrorists' communiqués, this one demanding the release of 13 leftist prisoners in exchange for Moro. Among those on the list: Red Brigades Chieftain Renato Curcio, 37, now on trial in Turin for armed insurrection, and Mario Rossi and Augusto Viel, two members of a former gang called October XXII who gained notoriety for the killing of a bank guard during a Genoa holdup in 1971. Along with the communiqué came another plaintive, handwritten letter from Moro addressed to Christian Democratic Secretary-General Benigno Zaccagnini. It called the party...
...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...
...only briefly reprieved from the death sentence that his captors claim to have passed down on him? While police and soldiers continued to search cars at roadblocks across the country, the government threw thousands of specialized troops into a fruitless search for his body. Then, after receiving the second communiqué-as well as a new letter from Moro pleading for his life-Premier Giulio Andreotti and his colleagues once again faced the question of whether to negotiate with the kidnapers or stand firm in their resolve that there would be no concessions...
...prisoner can be considered only in connection with the liberation of Communist prisoners. The D.C. and its government have 48 hours to respond starting at 3 p.m. on April 20 . . . or we will carry out the sentence handed down by the People's Tribunal. -Red Brigades Communiqué No. 7 April...
...first ominous step-up in the war of nerves had come over the previous weekend in a message from the terrorists announcing that Moro had been sentenced to death following his "people's trial." The following Tuesday police found the first Communiqué No. 7. In a mocking reference to West Germany's announcement last fall that three jailed terrorists had committed suicide in their cells, the message said Moro had been executed by "suicide," which "must not be only a prerogative of the Baader-Meinhof group." It went on to say that Moro's body could...