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...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 in Italy and for which rightist extremists were tried and sentenced. The bombing took 16 lives and left 90 injured. In the past three years, the N.A.R. specifically has been blamed for 25 attacks, including the murder in June of Mario Amato, a Rome judge who had been investigating its activities...
...reforms failed to check the waves of political violence that have left almost 5,000 dead this year. Much of the killing has been the work of armed rightist gangs, who often operate with the approval of traditional elements within the military. But leftist guerrilla bands have countered with a ruthlessness of their own. The most spectacular example of this cycle of violence and counterviolence was the coldblooded murder last April of Activist Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero, apparently by rightist gunmen. At his funeral, 35 people died in a stampede believed to have been sparked by trigger-happy leftists...
...junta averted collapse only when a leading moderate, Christian Democrat Party Leader José Napoleón Duarte, was persuaded to join it last March. Its hold on power, however, remains tenuous because it is caught in a vise between the right and the left. Earlier this year a rightist coup that would have ushered in a full-scale military takeover was quashed at the last minute, mostly because Washington threatened an aid cutoff if it was carried...
With Reagan entrenched as the party's nominee, the Republicans' rightist elements are eagerly seizing control of the party. To a large extent, as scrutiny of the platform developed last week reveals, they already have. But they have achieved this newfound surpremacy at the expense of party moderates, who have been shunted rudely aside...
...ruling junta, composed of three military officers and two civilians, has initiated broad economic and land reforms to pave the way for eventual democratic rule. The reforms have been bitterly resisted by rightist groups, which have attempted two coups in recent months. The leftists, on the other hand, claim with some justification that the reforms are accompanied by continued repression. Last week leftists called a 48-hour general strike, which succeeded in shutting down the capital and major provincial cities...