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Article: Killing the wrong people. (Foreign Affairs).
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- Quadrant
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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MANY OF THE ITALIAN political extremists who spread death and terror in the 1970s and 1980s have been reintegrated into society. Occasional pamphlets and one killing in 1999 are the only evidence that terrorists survive in Italy but, because terrorism has become a worldwide threat, it is worth asking why it emerged in Italy, how it was beaten and what were its consequences.
The kidnapping of the three-times Prime Minister Aldo Moro in 1978 was the culmination of years of terrorism. Moro was more adept at inventing formulas such as "parallel convergences", to reconcile political groupings which remained incompatible, than at vigorously pursuing governmental ...