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...spate of bombings in several cities confirmed that terrorists there were still on the loose. A 46-year-old foreman at the Lancia automobile plant in Turin was fatally wounded by Red Brigades assassins. Next day, Ippolito Bestonso, 66, an Alfa Romeo executive, was "kneecapped" outside his home in Milan by three youths who fired six bullets into his legs. In no hurry to flee, they followed up the shooting by handcuffing their victim and hanging a poster bearing the red star symbol of the Red Brigades around his neck...
...state concentration camp and do not intend to collaborate with this system of justice." Even so, the probe into Alunni's recent whereabouts shed some light on the sybaritic life-style that Europe's leftist outlaws can occasionally afford. Not long before his arrest in Milan, Alunni and his paramour, Maria Zoni, had spent two blissful weeks in a $700-a-month cottage in the Calabrian resort of Tropea...
After a spare lunch and afternoon siesta, John Paul returned to his desk. Milan's Giovanni Cardinal Colombo, who talked to him by phone, recalled that he sounded "full of serenity and hope." He summoned Sebastiano Cardinal Baggio, head of the Congregation for Bishops and a papabile (papal possibility) going into the last conclave, to discuss pressing business. At 7:30 he had his usual daily meeting with Vatican Secretary of State Jean Villot, 72, who within hours was to become once more the interim administrator, or Camerlengo, of the Holy See. Villot said that the Pope showed no signs...
...just after dark when over a hundred plainclothes police moved into a quiet, middleclass, residential neighborhood of Milan last week. Squad cars crept inconspicuously into position to seal off a block-long stretch of the Via Negroli. Armed carabinieri stationed themselves behind parked cars and in the courtyard of the apartment buildhig at No. 30. Their prey: Corrado Alunni, 30, one of the ringleaders in the Red Brigades kidnaping and assassination of Christian Democratic Party Leader Aldo Moro last spring...
DIED. Ronnie Peterson, 34, Swedish racing-car ace; of injuries suffered in a fiery ten-car crash during the first lap of the Italian Formula One Grand Prix at Monza; in Milan. Starting as a "gocart" driver at the age of eight, the shy, cool-nerved Peterson eventually raced in more than 100 Grand Prix events, and this year ranked second behind Mario Andretti in the world championship driver standings. Asked if he ever became scared, Peterson, the veteran of some 30 accidents, replied, "No, not really. If I did I think I would give it up." The fatal wreck...