Word: moros
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...Although Pertini was their compromise candidate, the Communists on early ballots cast symbolic votes for a favorite son, Party Elder Giorgio Amendola; by the end of the election he had received a total of 5,028 votes. Throwaway votes went to such unlikely candidates as the widow of Aldo Moro, the onetime Premier murdered by his Red Brigades kidnapers, and even Sophia Loren...
...innocence. In a final statement, read by four of the defendants, they told the court that all those on trial were militant Red Brigades members who assumed "collectively and in entirety responsibility for every one of its past, present and future actions." The kidnap-murder of former Premier Aldo Moro this spring by other Red Brigades terrorists, declared one of the defendants, was "a leap forward of high quality." Even as the jury was deliberating, two gunmen followed former Antiterrorist Squad Chief Antonio Esposito, 36, onto a Genoa bus and shot and killed him before horrified passengers. They then drove...
Just as the Moro crisis ends, Leone generates...
...reason for his dismay was the threat of a new political crisis that hit Italy just as the country was recovering from the tragic kidnaping and murder of former Premier Aldo Moro. Appearing on national television last week in the midst of World Cup soccer telecasts, white-thatched President Giovanni Leone, 69, a 34-year Christian Democratic political veteran and two-time former Premier, informed his "fellow Italians" in a heavy Neapolitan accent that he was resigning from the presidency...
...sell 14 C-130 transport planes to the Italian air force, had paid a series of bribes between 1965 and 1968. Some of the bribes were directed to an Italian Premier code-named "Antelope Cobbler" in Lockheed memorandums. There were three Premiers during the time of the bribes: Leone, Moro and Mariano Rumor. All vigorously denied the accusations; Leone's denial was weakened, however, by his close friendship with the brothers Ovidio and Antonio Lefebvre, who have been accused of serving as Lockheed's bagmen and are currently on trial in connection with the payoffs. In addition...