Word: moro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...since the actual kidnaping itself, more than a month earlier, had Italy endured a week of such agony and torment. Was former Premier and Christian Democratic Leader Aldo Moro dead? Or was he alive-perhaps only briefly reprieved from the death sentence 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...
...Aldo Moro is being treated scrupulously . . . The release of the prisoner can be considered only in connection with the liberation of Communist prisoners. The D.C. and its government have 48 hours to respond starting at 3 p.m. on April 20 . . . or we will carry out the sentence handed down by the People's Tribunal. -Red Brigades Communiqué No. 7 April...
...answer was no: the ruling Christian Democrats firmly rejected the kidnapers' demand to bargain for an exchange of jailed terrorists. They did propose that the international Catholic relief organization, Caritas, act as intermediary to seek other "possible ways" to save Moro's life. In a dramatic eleventh-hour move, Pope Paul appealed directly to the kidnapers. "I beg you on my knees, free the Honorable Aldo Moro simply, unconditionally," the Pope wrote in his own microscopic handwriting on his personal notepaper, "not so much because of my humble and affectionate intercession, but because of his dignity...
...first ominous step-up in the war of nerves had come over the previous weekend in a message from the terrorists announcing that Moro had been sentenced to death following his "people's trial." The following Tuesday police found the first Communiqué No. 7. In a mocking reference to West Germany's announcement last fall that three jailed terrorists had committed suicide in their cells, the message said Moro had been executed by "suicide," which "must not be only a prerogative of the Baader-Meinhof group." It went on to say that Moro's body could...
...nations can prevent terrorism, a question raised anew by the kidnaping of Aldo Moro, has become an even more urgent matter for Western industrial democracies. Dictatorships of either left or right have police-state forces to control terrorists-and no qualms about brutally using that power. But democracies must walk a thin line between maintaining security and preserving civil rights, both for terrorists and for innocent citizens who would be affected by antiterrorist clampdowns. In an increasingly technological age, warns Washington Psychologist Frank Ochberg, "we are getting more vulnerable every year...