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Bombs, bullets and a break in the Moro case...
...first time since 1977, when student mobs rampaged through Rome, Autonomisti toughs have clashed with police in many cities. Their reappearance has been spurred by what Italian officials believe to be a break in the 1978 kidnap-killing of former Premier Aldo Moro. In coordinated raids in five cities, DIGOS squads arrested 22 suspected terrorists belonging to Autonomia Operaia (Workers Autonomy), one of the Autonomisti groups. Nine of the 22 were charged with involvement in the Moro case. The prize catch appeared to be one of the Autonomisti's leading theoreticians, Antonio Negri, 45. He is a soft-spoken...
...evidence against Negri was locked behind judicial secrecy, but officials mentioned that a draft of instructions to Brigatisti that was found in Milan, as well as notes about the Moro operation discovered in a Rome hideaway, was thought to be in Negri's handwriting. Also, experts tentatively identified Negri's voice in the tape of a kidnaper's phone call to Moro's wife. Negri has denied any operational connection between Autonomia Operaia and the Red Brigades, and any involvement in the kidnaping...
...have been tracking Negri for several months, after one of the kidnapers' calls was broadcast in the hope someone would recognize the voice. A Milan judge named Emilio Alessandrini identified it as that of the young professor, with whom he had dined on April 11, 1978, while Moro was still captive. Last January, Alessandrini was killed by terrorists belonging to a Red Brigades splinter group...
...government. If he succeeds, it will mark the third Cabinet in a row that Andreotti has headed, but the odds are against him. Although a skilled parliamentarian, he does not belong to the Christian Democratic leadership. His party, moreover, sorely misses the masterly negotiating talents of onetime Premier Aldo Moro, who was kidnaped and murdered by Red Brigades terrorists last year...