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...weeks the third-floor apartment at Via Pallanza 6, in an outlying working-class district of Milan, had been staked out by police of Italy's special antiterrorist squad. Visitors to the apartment were photographed as they entered the building and tailed as they left. Finally, the authorities were ready to strike. In a coordinated two-day sweep directed by Carlo Alberto Delia Chiesa, 58, a much-decorated carabinieri general, police arrested nine key members of the terrorist Red Brigades organization, broke into four of their hideouts and confiscated numerous arms and a wealth of material on terrorist activities...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: Terrorist Roundup | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

Died. Prince Paul Troubetzkoy, 72, Russian sculptor; in Pallanza, Italy. Prince Paul first won recognition with an equestrian statue-a Red Indian modeled from a "Buffalo Bill" Cody Wild West Show in Milan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Feb. 21, 1938 | 2/21/1938 | See Source »

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