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Edward Luttwak, 35, adjunct professor of international politics at Johns Hopkins University and senior fellow at the Georgetown Center for Strategic and International Studies. The author of books and articles ranging from analyses of arms control and the Middle East to the strategy of ancient Rome. Luttwak has earned a reputation as one of the U.S.'s most creative and provocative defense experts with a generally "hawkish" approach...
...family of The Honorable Aldo Moro, in a commitment of human and civil solidarity." Tacked to a tree near by was a lurid, half-torn Sunday magazine cover showing the bloodied, sheet-covered body of one of the victims. Those scenes of tribute were enacted last week as Rome was virtually turned inside out in the hunt for Moro and the Red Brigades terrorists who had abducted him. Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante reports...
...Brigades, Italy's most infamous terrorist gang (see box), produced a Polaroid photograph of the captured Moro and a handbill warning that he would be subjected to a "people's trial." The typewritten flyer, emblazoned with the awkward five-pointed Red Brigades star, was sent mysteriously to Rome's daily Il Messaggero and left in a phone booth near the RAI state-run TV headquarters. It did not otherwise state any specific demands for Moro's release, but said further communiques would follow. Nonetheless, there was a growing belief that foreign extremists, probably Germans, had helped...
...terrorist action was aimed at rupturing the growing accommodation between the governing Christian Democrats and the Communists, as many leftists were prone to suspect, the effect, for the moment at least, was exactly the reverse. A gigantic labor rally in Rome, called to express outrage at the kidnaping, produced the unusual sight of white banners, with the crossed shield of the Christian Democrats, flying silk-to-silk with the red flags and the hammer and sickle of the Italian Communists...
...pavilions are inspired by history or geography. The medieval herb garden, for instance, is complete with a bay tree surrounded by soft green turf. In the topiary garden, a hippo, giraffe, elephant and camel-sculpted in glossy English ivy-recall the playful conceits of Pliny's Rome. The American Desert House is studded with 100 kinds of desert plants, including a 20-ft. saguaro cactus. Children may prowl the Greenmuse, a special section with a "please touch" policy to give city kids an acquaintance with the look and feel of real corn and tomato plants. Beneath the conservatory...