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...grim Red Brigades'communiqué continues the terror We therefore conclude the battle begun on March 16 by carrying out the verdict to which Aldo Moro was condemned...
...headquarters in the Piazza del Gesu. In the Senate, where a debate on a bill to legalize abortion had just ended, Senators milled around in the corridors asking for the latest news. The President of the Senate, Amintore Fanfani, drove to the home of the kidnaped politician, where Eleonora Moro has been living in virtual seclusion since her husband's abduction. The afternoon paper, Paese Sera, rushed out an extra edition with the black banner headline: MORO KILLED...
...Brigades' message, retrieved by reporters from trash baskets in four cities after telephone calls, was found only a few hours after Italy's National Security Council rejected a proposal by Socialist Leader Bettino Craxi to grant amnesty to some minor terrorist prisoners as a concession to Moro's captors. The terrorists' rambling, two-page communiqué argued that by rejecting the exchange of 13 of their colleagues in prison, the Christian Democrats had left them with no alternative but to carry out their death sentence on Moro...
Written as it was in the present tense, the terrorists' terse concluding statement about "carrying out the verdict" seemed open to different interpretations. Had the Red Brigades really killed Aldo Moro? If so, where had the execution taken place and what had they done with his body? Communiqué No. 9 gave no details. Many politicians shared the view of Justice Minister Paolo Bonifacio: "I consider the terrorist communiqué authentic. But I don't believe the final sentence. I think it more probable that it's a terrorist gambit to heighten the tension in the country...
Still, I am certain that if Aldo Moro had been shot outright, like the members of his bodyguard, our outrage would have been, even fainter. Since the assassinations of the Kennedys, we seem to have no more shock to register about 'the killing of a public man. Besides, there is a sense in which an assassination is less of an affront to morality than a kidnaping. The great man is knifed. Revenge is accomplished or unholy ambition thwarted. This is only a rerun of Julius Caesar, without the blank verse. Long live, for a time, Brutus. With kidnaping, however...