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...teams of the far-left Red Brigades have killed a member of the DIGOS police intelligence unit in Milan, "kneecapped" a TV news editor in Turin and similarly wounded a local Christian Democrat official in Genoa. Bombs have demolished a Milan police station and two Rome offices of the neo-Fascist Italian Social Movement. Then there has been the re-emergence of the Autonomisti, a semi-clandestine amalgam of Marxist student organizations...
...Venice), one Curia prelate said, "If the last conclave gave a flunking grade to the Curia, this one extended it to the whole Italian hierarchy." Onlookers thought that some Italian prelates looked downcast, even grim, when Wojtyla made his first appearance on the balcony of the basilica. And when Genoa's Giuseppe Cardinal Siri, the front runner at the start of the conclave, was asked what he thought of John Paul II's inaugural message, delivered only half an hour earlier, he snapped peevishly: "I can't remember what he said...
That Sunday came to be known as the "Italian day." The lead candidates were Benelli, 57, who for a decade had virtually run the Vatican as Substitute Secretary of State, and Genoa's ultraconservative Giuseppe Siri, 72. After Sunday's first ballot had been completed, Siri quickly showed his strength among Curialists and other conservatives, gaining 46 of the necessary 75 votes on the second ballot. Benelli was second. Blocs of votes went to other Italians?Milan's Giovanni Colombo, the Curia's Sergio Pignedoli, Naples' Corrado Ursi?and scattered votes to other Italians and a few non-Italians...
...member of the Red Brigades. The police complained that the wide press coverage given to Alunni's capture had interfered with a similar dragnet. Among those arrested last week were Antonio Savino, 29, who escaped from prison last year and is accused of murdering a district attorney in Genoa; Paolo Sivieri, 24, found with evidence linking him to the kneecapping of an Alfa Romeo executive in Milan the day before his arrest; and Bianca Sivieri, 29, Paolo's sister, an elementary schoolteacher who lived with Savino...
...quarters. Besides, remarked St. Louis' John Carberry, "some of the Cardinals from Africa live in no better conditions back in their archdioceses." So the proposal was quashed. The balloting, which begins Sunday, Oct. 15, will be in the Sistine Chapel, as it has been since 1878. That provoked Genoa's Giuseppe Siri to forecast a quick decision. "After three days, we shall all go mad," he said. "You have to be in there to understand the closed atmosphere...