Word: moro
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture evokes painful memories of the comparable photo of Aldo Moro before he was murdered by his Red Brigades abductors last year. More than that, if the allegations were even partly true, they would set off a Vesuvius of scandal. The group claiming to hold Sindona, the Proletarian Committee of Subversion for Better Justice, is unknown to Italian police, and some authorities still believe Sindona may be only pretending. Lawyer Guzzi theorizes that the kidnapers may be on a fishing expedition, seeking incriminating evidence that could be used for extortion. Says he: "I don't believe for one moment...
ROME--Police yesterday apprehended Prospero Gallinari, a founder of the Red Brigades and the alleged organizer of the abduction and kiling of former Premier Aldo Moro...
...trying to liquidate the secessionist movement in Mindanao. While we are in the process, therefore, I believe that the national government should be armed with this power. We've just received hard evidence to indicate a tie-up between the New People's Army with the Moro National Liberation Front [the Muslim separatist movement]. [In addition], the economic crisis came up. Since the economic crisis has dimensions that we cannot actually now determine, I would rather play safe. I may be blamed for being overly cautious, but certainly meeting both the insurgency as well as the economic crisis...
...PHILIPPINES. The 63,000-man Filipino army has had little conventional combat experience since the Korean War. Bolstered by an additional 45,000-member constabulary force, it keeps busy fighting the Muslim rebels of the Moro National Liberation Front in the southern Philippines, and the Maoist-led New People's Army mainly in Luzon and the Visayan Islands. In part because of the country's corrupt leadership, Washington analysts grade the Filipino performance and prospects a dismal Cminus...
...infuriates Italy's terrorists as the spectacle of the democratic process at work. Just as the campaign for the country's early June parliamentary elections was beginning, the ruthless Red Brigades staged their most spectacular urban guerrilla attack since their abduction and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro last spring. Striking in the heart of Rome, a band of as many as 20 brigatisti swarmed into the district headquarters of the ruling Christian Democratic Party not far from such tourist attractions as Piazza Navona and Via Condotti...