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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...
...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...
...kidnap-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro two years ago, Cossiga himself explained to the senate last week. "Black terrorism prefers the massacre because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions." The worst previous incident of terrorism in Italy, in fact, had been the 1969 bombing of a Milan bank that is widely regarded as the start of political terrorism in Italy and for which rightist extremists were tried and sentenced. The bombing took 16 lives and left 90 injured. In the past three years, the N.A.R. specifically has been blamed for 25 attacks, including the murder in June...
...foot, turning away one question after another. His ultimate artistic goals? "[Puff.] I try to do in the best possible way this music. That is all." What about his reputation for radical politics? During the Viet Nam War, wasn't he hissed and shouted off the stage in Milan for trying to read an anti-U.S. manifesto before playing? "I am involved in a ... personal way. [Puff.] Every man has a responsibility. [Puff, puff...
...Pollini's personal life remains private, fenced off behind the rows of neutral facts in program notes. He was the only child of a prominent modernist architect in Milan. He began playing the piano at five and immediately felt "a special connection" with the instrument. At eleven, he gave his first public performance. Today, in between the 60 or so concerts he plays a year, he lives in Milan with his wife and baby...