Word: moros
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Investigators tended to give credence to the claim that the blast was the work of neoFascists, or so-called black terrorists, because of the mindless nature of the crime. Leftist terrorism tends to strike with selective assassinations, like the kidnap-murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro two years ago, Cossiga himself explained to the senate last week. "Black terrorism prefers the massacre because it promotes panic and impulsive reactions." The worst previous incident of terrorism in Italy, in fact, had been the 1969 bombing of a Milan bank that is widely regarded as the start of political terrorism...
...resign. "Is it possible that anyone could accuse me of protecting terrorists?" Cossiga asked friends incredulously. After all, Cossiga had served as Interior Minister from 1976 to 1978, Italy's worst period of terrorism, and had refused to negotiate with the Red Brigades for the release of Aldo Moro, his close friend and the country's most widely respected politician. After Moro's murder, Cossiga took full moral responsibility and resigned...
...corridor of Milan University and killed State Prosecutor Nicola Giacumbi as he walked home with his wife in Salerno. The resurgence of terrorist violence (18 victims this year) has heightened national tensions to a more alarmed level than at any other time since the kidnap-murder of Politician Aldo Moro nearly two years ago. Last week public morale received a further blow when the minority Christian Democratic government of Premier Francesco Cossiga collapsed and plunged the country into what Rome politicians call a crisi al buio: a crisis in the dark. It was the 38th government to fall...
...downfall of Cossiga's seven-month-old government, however, was lamented more than most. A first-time Premier who had served as Interior Minister during the Moro affair, the scholarly, multilingual Cossiga, 51, turned out to be unexpectedly engaging and energetic. In Parliament he managed to put across a comparatively tough package of antiterrorist legislation, and despite Communist opposition, won approval for basing NATO's new, intermediate-range nuclear cruise missiles on Italian soil...
...Olympic Village in Munich in 1972. Twenty-five died when terrorists opened fire in the Tel Aviv airport the same year. The Baader-Meinhof gang in Germany and the Red Brigades in Italy turned life for European executives into a routine of paranoid precautions. Former Premier Aldo Moro was kidnaped and executed. With grotesque ingenuity, Italian terrorists practiced "kneecapping"-blowing holes in their victims' knees. Hijackers in the '70s forced every major airport in the world to search passengers and X-ray luggage...