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...where they believed Moro's kidnapers might have prepared the messages that were sent to the government and his family. The raid turned up an IBM typewriter of the kind used in the messages, arms, and Red Brigades leaflets claiming responsibility for the kidnaping of Piero Costa, a Genoa shipping magnate, in 1976. The shop's owner, Enrico Triaca, 30, was arrested along with nine other suspects, whom police were investigating for possible connections to the kidnaping...
...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's rejection of negotiations "wicked and ungrateful." The letter went on: "It is a matter of seconds rather than minutes...
...work of common criminals, while the Red Brigades have shown less interest in ransom money than in fomenting terror and mocking police efforts to capture them. At week's end, even as the trial of 15 Red Brigades defendants continued in Turin, a leading industrialist in Genoa was wounded by two gunmen on his way to work. A man saying he was from the Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the ambush in a phone call to a newspaper...
That signed, handwritten, five-page letter was purportedly from kidnaped Christian Democratic leader and former Premier Aldo Moro. Addressed to Italy's Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga, it was delivered simultaneously last week to newspaper offices in Rome, Milan, Turin and Genoa. The grave, poignant message never said so directly, but the suggestion it contained was unmistakable: it was an appeal to Italian authorities to bargain with the Red Brigades terrorists who had abducted Moro two weeks earlier...
...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...