Word: moro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Brigades have help in Moro's kidnaping...
Ever since the brazen daylight kidnaping and subsequent assassination of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring, Italian investigators have been intrigued by indications that there may have been a West German connection to the crime. Some eyewitnesses reported that they thought they heard German spoken at the scene of the abduction. Police also noted that the manner in which the kidnaping was staged and the precision execution of Moro's five bodyguards were curiously similar in style to the kidnaping six months earlier of German Industrialist Hanns-Martin Schleyer in Cologne...
...Detailed expense notations were found in a Red Brigades hideout in Rome that police say was used by the Moro hit team. The notes refer to airline flights made to Vienna and four German cities by someone using the code name Fritz...
...Corpses, deals quite well with this rather complicated subject of Italian political turmoil. The film's theme of political assassination and a growing police state conjures up frightening Orwellian visions of Big Brother-type repression. It is even more eerily prophetic as it was made in 1975, before the Moro killing and more compelling than The Parallax View (an American film with the same theme of assassination) as it probably reflects a greater measure of reality...
THERE IS A GOOD deal of fear and loathing in Rome these days. The recent assassination of Aldo Moro only exacerbated a steadily deteriorating social climate in a country where Machiavellian political intrigue has historically been par for the course. The average Italian does not know where to turn today for salvation. The lack of trust among various factions and the unwillingness to compromise which have characterized Italian national affairs since 1945 have continually thwarted efforts to form a new political coalition which would embrace more liberal elements and might bring about a greater degree of social cohesion. Even...