Word: stronghold
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Novelli's biggest single headache is a monstrous migraine: terrorism. As the home of Fiat's giant works, Turin is targeted by the radical left as the stronghold of Italian capitalism. Three weeks ago, still another Fiat official was almost routinely shot in the legs as he walked to his home in a Turin suburb. The "kneecapping" was the city's 124th terrorist attack to take place in 1979. Novelli insists that this pattern of violence "has not interrupted the carrying out of our duties for one hour. We have given Turin a government. In the five...