He was murdered by the far-left New Red Brigades, as was a previous adviser on labour reform.
Some believe that veterans of the old Red Brigades have recruited younger killers to reactivate the movement.
Fortunately, the new Red Brigades if that is who they are do not threaten Italy as the old ones did.
In 2002, Marco Biagi, the economic adviser who drew up the original proposal, was shot dead by the Red Brigades.
In 1982 - Italian anti-terrorist police rescued U.S. Brigadier-General James Dozier from Red Brigades guerrillas who had kidnapped him 42 days earlier.
France, for example, has long sheltered suspects sought by Italy for urban guerrilla attacks by the now-defunct Marxist Red Brigades movement in the 1970s.
Her father was a wealthy industrialist-cum-musician who feared the campaign of kidnappings being carried out at the time by the far-left Red Brigades in Italy.
The interior minister says that the murderers probably belong to an offshoot of the Red Brigades, a far-left terrorist group active in the 1970s and 1980s.
Andrew McCarthy plays David, an American reporter and would-be fiction writer secretly writing a novel on the Red Brigades while working for an English-language newspaper in Rome.
Mr. Andreotti was prime minister of that coalition when Aldo Moro, a fellow Christian Democrat leader, was kidnapped in March 1978 by the Red Brigades, a left-leaning terrorist group.
One study of the Red Brigades, the Italian terrorist group of the nineteen-seventies, found that seventy per cent of recruits had at least one good friend already in the organization.
Two months after my arrival in Verona, members of the left-wing terror group the Red Brigades abducted U.S. General James Lee Dozier from an apartment not three miles from our rented rooms.
Last year the French government refused to extradite Marina Petrella, a former Red Brigades terrorist (Carla Bruni, the president's wife, went to Mrs Petrella's hospital bed to give her the good news).
Though none among Italy's known former terrorists 200 are still in jail or on parole, and as many escaped justice and fled abroad says that the new killers have anything to do with the original Red Brigades, some coincidences are striking.
The so-called historic compromise between Christian Democrats and Communists planned in 1978 foundered not only because of the dramatic kidnapping and subsequent murder by Red Brigades terrorists of the former Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro, but also because of long maintained Cold War vetoes by the United States against letting communists into government in Rome.
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