ITALY: Bellissimo!

A terrorist leader is caught

It was just after dark when over a hundred plainclothes police moved into a quiet, middleclass, residential neighborhood of Milan last week. Squad cars crept inconspicuously into position to seal off a block-long stretch of the Via Negroli. Armed carabinieri stationed themselves behind parked cars and in the courtyard of the apartment buildhig at No. 30. Their prey: Corrado Alunni, 30, one of the ringleaders in the Red Brigades kidnaping and assassination of Christian Democratic Party Leader Aldo Moro last spring.

A ten-man team of antiterrorist specialists, equipped...

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