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Word: pentiti (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1982-1982
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...kidnaping U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier awaited the first day of their trial in two adjoining steel cages. In one were the duri (hard-liners), who have stubbornly maintained their silence during interrogation. In the other, for their own protection as much as anything else, were the pentiti (repentant ones), whose surprising willingness to betray their comrades has given Italian authorities reason to believe that they may be close to unraveling the once tight Red Brigades terrorist network...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Italy: Songs of the Pentiti | 3/22/1982 | See Source »

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