Word: letterings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...read the moving letter to Aldo Moro, published in Milan's daily Il Giorno. It capped a series of urgent appeals last week from U.N. Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim and other prominent figures to Moro's Red Brigades kidnapers to release unharmed the missing Christian Democratic leader and former Italian Premier. But as the agonizing human tragedy entered its seventh week, only Moro's captors knew for sure whether he was alive or dead, and they gave no hints as to what they might do next...
...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. We are at massacre time...
...Rosovsky started the process that has led to the Core when he sent the Faculty his "yellow letter" criticizing undergraduate education at Harvard and recommending the formation of seven task forces to plan improvements---one of which presented the first plans for the Core last spring...
...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...
...must comment on Susan Esser's letter to the editors (April 20) in which she states that "Harvard must place the academic goals of the University above all other considerations"' on the grounds that "partisan agitation on the part of undergraduates is secondary to the achievement of a deeper understanding of ethics, science and esthetics." Furthermore Ms. Esser writes that "by teaching students how such goals [morality, truth and beauty] are more more important that profit and power, Harvard guarantees that its students will never repeat the criminal greed of U.S. corporations now in South Africa...