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...Moro 's killers are sentenced
...atrocities committed by the Red Brigades, none shocked the world as much as the murder of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978. Kidnaped near his house in Rome after his five bodyguards were gunned down, Moro was found 55 days later shot to death and stuffed in the trunk of a car. Justice was finally meted out last week. In Italy's largest trial of terrorists, a jury found 59 leftist guerrillas guilty of the Moro killing and of 16 other murders...
...handing down the stiffest punishment yet against the Red Brigades: 32 defendants were given life sentences; the others received prison terms ranging from four months to 30 years (Italy has no death penalty). Among those sentenced to life in prison were Mario Moretti, 36, who masterminded the kidnaping of Moro, and Prospero Gallinari, 33, who shot the Prime Minister with a pistol, then sprayed his body with a submachine...
...members that explored their revolutionary ardor and probable reaction to the prospect of life imprisonment, and then zeroed in on those who seemed likely to turn informant in exchange for a lighter sentence. The tactic worked, and the confessions snowballed. The mood of the country also changed, for the Moro and Dozier incidents, combined with the spree of violence, cost the terrorists what little sympathy they enjoyed among Italians. Perhaps as a result, terrorist attacks in Italy have decreased' from a high of 2,395 in 1978 to 849 in 1981 and 603 in 1982. Authorities expect that...
...named prefect of Palermo last April. No better choice could have been made for this mission impossible--to fight the Sicilian Mafia on its own turf--than the selection of Dalla Chiesa. Having vanquished the kidnappers of U.S. Gen. James Dozier and the killers of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro, Dalla Chiesa stood for everything efficient, uncorrupted and powerful in Italian government...