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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...
...evidence against Negri was locked behind judicial secrecy, but officials mentioned that a draft of instructions to Brigatisti that was found in Milan, as well as notes about the Moro operation discovered in a Rome hideaway, was thought to be in Negri's handwriting. Also, experts tentatively identified Negri's voice in the tape of a kidnaper's phone call to Moro's wife. Negri has denied any operational connection between Autonomia Operaia and the Red Brigades, and any involvement in the kidnaping...
Italian and French police are said to have been tracking Negri for several months, after one of the kidnapers' calls was broadcast in the hope someone would recognize the voice. A Milan judge named Emilio Alessandrini identified it as that of the young professor, with whom he had dined on April 11, 1978, while Moro was still captive. Last January, Alessandrini was killed by terrorists belonging to a Red Brigades splinter group...
Works of Schumann, Saint-Saens, Amold, Bach, Milan, and Tarrega--Catherine Lawlor, piano; Barbara Knapp, oboe; Christine Tessler, piano' and Brian Holland, guitar; New School of Music, 60 Aberdeen Ave., Cambridge...
DIED. Nino Rota, 67, Italian composer best known for some 100 movie scores, including the Oscar-winning music for Godfather II and nearly all of Director Federico Fellini's films; of a blood clot; in Rome. A native of Milan, Rota composed his first opera at 14 and in 1931 went to the U.S. to study at Philadelphia's Curtis Institute. Returning to Italy two years later, he continued writing operas (The Italian Straw Hat), symphonies and chamber works during his next 45 years, but achieved his greatest success scoring such films as Fellini's La Strada...