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...Aldo Moro was a man of peace, patiently endeavoring to bring some semblance of order to strife-torn Italy. His death [May 22] brings to mind the words of George Bernard Shaw at the time of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi: "This shows how dangerous it is to be too good...
...mood at Communist headquarters was sullen and depressed, although spokesmen argued that the party traditionally does better in general elections than in local contests where Christian Democratic patronage is entrenched. Party officials admitted that, despite their forceful stand against bargaining with Moro's kidnapers, they had been tarred by the terrorists' use of the "Red label" and what they called the "illicit misrepresentation of the Communist name." Giancarlo Pajetta, a prominent Communist leader, fumed against Christian Democratic politicians in the provinces who had called the Red Brigades "the Communists' children" in campaign speeches...
...election will probably not have any immediate effect on the governing agreement between the Christian Democrats and the Communists so skillfully worked out by Moro earlier this year. The day after the results were tallied, in fact, all the major parties gave the government an overwhelming vote of confidence (522 members in favor, 27 opposed, 3 abstentions) for its seven-week-old antiterrorist decree. The measure raises the penalty for a kidnaping-homicide to life imprisonment and gives Italy's police wider arrest and interrogation powers...
...Rome, police made what may be an important breakthrough. They raided a small print shop where they believed Moro's kidnapers might have prepared the messages that were sent to the government and his family. The raid turned up an IBM typewriter of the kind used in the messages, arms, and Red Brigades leaflets claiming responsibility for the kidnaping of Piero Costa, a Genoa shipping magnate, in 1976. The shop's owner, Enrico Triaca, 30, was arrested along with nine other suspects, whom police were investigating for possible connections to the kidnaping...
Meanwhile, Moro's grieving family, who had shunned the state funeral presided over by Pope Paul VI, held a private memorial Mass in the modern Church of Christ the King in Rome. A cleric read a prayer composed by the slain statesman's widow, Eleonora, who had pleaded in vain with party and government leaders to negotiate for her husband's life. "We pray that we may be delivered from every desire for vengeance," it said in part. "We implore mercy for the executors of the horrible crime, and for all those who. out of fear, meanness...