Word: milan
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...correspondent for the prestigious Milan daily Corriere della Sera, Walter Tobagi, 33, was widely known for his writing about Italian terrorism. Too widely known. As he left his home one morning last May, two young gunmen shot him to death, then fled in a waiting Peugeot sedan. Within hours, the notorious Red Brigades claimed responsibility for the murder in a long communiqué attacking the Italian press. The bulletin was signed by a newly created branch of the terrorist organization known as the March 28 Brigade, named for the date in 1980 when four Red Brigades members died...
Last week, after a stunning series of raids in Milan, Bologna and other cities, police officials announced that among some 70 members of the Red Brigades arrested, they had captured the entire six-member March 28 contingent. To the astonishment of many Italians, the alleged journalistic assassins included the sons of a prominent publisher, a newspaper writer and several leading manufacturers...
Friends and family members refused at first to believe that the six could be terrorists. One of the incredulous was La Repubblica Reporter Guido Passalacqua, 37, who was wounded in Milan last May by the same gun that killed Tobagi. Last week when police showed him pictures of his accused attackers, Passalacqua recognized two of them. Said he, pointing to a photograph of Giordano: "But he's a friend of mine. We've had dinner together many times. He's a friend. I don't understand .'' He was not alone...
Fumed Vittorio Gorresio, a respected columnist for the Turin daily La Stampa: "Along comes Pope John Paul and tells us that we cannot even desire our own wives." To Gorresio, "Wojtyla" was "attempting to deny the claims of sex even within marriage." In Milan's usually staid Corriere della Sera, Giorgio Manganelli sought to have the lust laugh. Life is so hard for the adulterer, he wrote sarcastically: an endless round of cover-ups, tricks, juggling of the daily calendar, and the need to buy "useless and expensive presents" for two women at once. Now the Pope has removed...
...about a fourth of the population of the U.S., had more than 600 heroin-related deaths last year, while the U.S. had 594. In the past eleven months, international law enforcement authorities have seized six laboratories in northern Italy, including two that were operating in a castle near Milan...