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...party leaders. Then, after a quick shuffle of new names, he picked Cossiga as one on whom all parties could agree. As surprised as anyone else, Cossiga was packing his bag for a boating weekend with his family when the call came from Christian Democratic Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini: "Get ready. It's your turn...
...Christian Democratic headquarters in Rome, official mourning for Moro gave way to momentary ebullience over the bastonata (thrashing) delivered to the Communists. The victory strengthened the position of Premier Giulio Andreotti and Party Secretary Benigno Zaccagnini as heirs to Moro's leadership. Eventually, however, the election results could give those conservative regulars in the party who are unhappy about collaborating with the Communists new incentive to challenge that leadership. As one Christian Democratic strategist put it: "I knew we should have gone for an early election last winter instead of forming a government with Communist support...
That chilling statement at the end of the Red Brigades' "Communiqué No. 9" hit Rome like a thunderclap. Premier Giulio Andreotti interrupted a meeting with government economic experts to confer with Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga. Benigno Zaccagnini, secretary of the Christian Democratic Party, delayed a projected campaign trip for the May 14 local elections and rushed to the party headquarters in the Piazza del Gesu. In the Senate, where a debate on a bill to legalize abortion had just ended, Senators milled around in the corridors asking for the latest news. The President of the Senate, Amintore Fanfani...
...Mario Rossi and Augusto Viel, two members of a former gang called October XXII who gained notoriety for the killing of a bank guard during a Genoa holdup in 1971. Along with the communiqué came another plaintive, handwritten letter from Moro addressed to Christian Democratic Secretary-General Benigno Zaccagnini. It called the party's rejection of negotiations "wicked and ungrateful." The letter went on: "It is a matter of seconds rather than minutes. We are at massacre time...
...letter to Zaccagnini, like the one sent the week before to Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga, was handwritten. In his earlier message Moro wrote that he feared he would be forced to disclose official secrets harmful to the government. This time he plaintively accused his colleagues of forsaking him. Pleading for "realism," he argued that "the only possible positive solution" was "the liberation of prisoners on both sides. Time is running out fast." He concluded: "In truth, I feel somewhat abandoned...