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  Aldo Moro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Moro was born in Maglie, in the province of Lecce (Puglia).
Moro was kidnapped on his way to a session of the house of representatives, where a discussion was supposed to take place regarding the vote of confidence to a new government led by Giulio Andreotti (DC), for the first time with the support of the Communist Party.
Aldo Moro is described as one of Gladio's founders.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Aldo_Moro   (1527 words)

  
 Aldo Moro
Aldo Moro (September 23, 1916 - May 9, 1978) was an Italian politician.
One of the most important leaders of Democrazia Cristiana (DC), Moro was considered a fine intellectual and an incredibly patient mediator, especially in the internal life of his party.
Moro's dead body was left by terrorists at a site 100 meters from the head offices of both DC and PCI, as a last symbolic challenge to police and institutions, which were keeping all the nation, and Rome in particular, under a strict and severe surveillance.
www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/al/Aldo_Moro.html   (579 words)

  
 Moro - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Moro (people), member of any of a number of Muslim tribes in the Philippines.
Moro, Aldo (1916-78), prime minister of Italy, who led the so-called opening to the left in 1963.
A native of southern Italy, Moro was a professor...
ca.encarta.msn.com /Moro.html   (103 words)

  
 Death of a Statesman: Aldo Moro and the Unspoken Terrorism
Moro was a vigorous 61 years old, the most powerful political figure in Italy, when his car and escort sped off that sunstruck morning in Rome into an urban guerrilla ambush.
Moro of having by acts of omission ratified her husband’s death sentence, behaved certainly without malice, and in most cases went against the deepest wishes of their hearts.
On the day Moro was kidnapped a new government was to be empowered, and the parliamentary majority on which it was to be based was the broadest in the history of postwar Italy.
www.theboot.it /aldo_moro_affair.htm   (2541 words)

  
 The Man Who Killed Aldo Moro
Moro from among murdered bodyguards on March 16, held him captive 54 days, was the only person to talk with him the whole time, then killed him on May 9 with 11 bullets in the chest.
Moro left the “people’s prison” – a partition in a Roman apartment; he was led into the garage and slain in the back of a car.
Moro left the “people’s prison” — a makeshift partition in a middle-class apartment in a nondescript part of Rome — he was led into the garage and slain in the back of a car.
www.theboot.it /aldo_moro_op-ed.htm   (1609 words)

  
 Moro - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Moros were historically the last group to migrate northward to the Philippines, before the colonization by Spain.
Aldo Moro an Italian politician kidnapped and killed by the BR, a terrorist group.
Moro (chocolate bar) - A chocolate bar made by Cadbury in Ireland and New Zealand.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Moro   (186 words)

  
 Facts about aldo moro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aldo Moro (September 23, 1916 - May 9, 1978) was the two-time Prime Minister of Italy.
On March 16, 1978, the day Moro's third government should have gone in front of Parliament to obtain the fiducia (parliamentary approval), he was kidnapped by the left-radical Red Brigades who massacred his escort, and after 55 days detention murdered him as well.
Moro's body was left by terrorists at a site 100 metres from the head offices of both DC and PCI, as a last symbolic challenge to police and institutions, which were keeping all the nation, and Rome in particular, under a strict and severe surveillance.
www.supercrawler.com /Facts/aldo_moro.html   (645 words)

  
 Moro - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Moro live on the islands of the Sulu Archipelago, on southern...
Moro, Aldo (1916-1978), Prime Minister of Italy, who led the so-called opening to the left in 1963.
A native of southern Italy, Moro was a...
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 erasing clouds
Aldo Moro was kidnapped because he had achieved a rapprochement with the Communist party and favoured the official inclusion of the PCI (Partito Comunista Italiano, Italian Communist Party) in the government.
During the '70s, Moro was one of the political leaders who gave the deepest attention to the PCI leader, Enrico Berlinguer's project of a so-called Compromesso Storico (Historical Compromise).
In answer to the tough line, Moro wrote again, underlining in his last letters that he was sane and wasn't under the influence of the BR when asking the government to negotiate.
www.erasingclouds.com /1001terroristsandmen.html   (1017 words)

  
 "The Whole State Will Be on Trial": The Aldo Moro Kidnapping
Moro, who had been quietly reading the morning paper when the attack began, was pulled unhurt from the backseat and hurried away in an escape vehicle.
Thus began Aldo Moro's horrible ordeal, and one of the most daring instances of organized terrorist violence in the postwar era.
Moro was kidnapped by the Red Brigade, a terrorist group that emerged out of the student protest movement.
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 Aldo Moro - TheBestLinks.com - European Commission, Fascism, Freemasonry, May 9, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aldo Moro, European Commission, Fascism, Freemasonry, May 9, March 16, Mafia...
Aldo Moro (September 23, 1916 - May 9, 1978) was twice Prime Minister of Italy.
Moro's body was left by terrorists in the trunk of a car in Via Caetani, a site 100 metres from the head offices of both DC and PCI, as a last symbolic challenge to police and institutions, which were keeping all the nation, and Rome in particular, under a strict and severe surveillance.
www.thebestlinks.com /Aldo_Moro.html   (695 words)

  
 BBC ON THIS DAY | 16 | 1978: Aldo Moro snatched at gunpoint
Mr Moro's escort of five police bodyguards were killed when he was snatched at gunpoint from a car near a cafe in the morning rush-hour.
Chief police investigator Signor Moro said 12 gunmen took part in the attack on the former prime minister as he was being driven to parliament.
For two months, Mr Moro was held at a secret location in Rome allowing him to send letters to his family and politicians - begging the government to negotiate with his captors.
news.bbc.co.uk /onthisday/hi/dates/stories/march/16/newsid_4232000/4232691.stm   (519 words)

  
 Harvard University Press: The Aldo Moro Murder Case
Aldo Moro's kidnapping and violent death in 1978 shocked Italy as no other event has during the entire history of the Republic.
In his thorough account of the long and anguished quest for justice in the Moro murder case, Richard Drake provides a detailed portrait of the tragedy and its aftermath as complex symbols of a turbulent age in Italian history.
Since Moro's murder, documents from two parliamentary inquiries and four sets of trials explain the historical and political process and illuminate two enduring themes in Italian history.
www.hup.harvard.edu /catalog/DRAALD.html   (361 words)

  
 Radio National: The Europeans
The kidnapping and subsequent death of Aldo Moro in 1978 is one of the enduring Italian political "mysteries".
Moro was a former Prime Minister and a prominent leader of Italy’s right wing Christian Democratic party.
Death and Politics; The Troubling Case of Aldo Moro was produced by Gary Bryson.
www.abc.net.au /rn/talks/europe/stories/s1145333.htm   (185 words)

  
 Mythmaking & the Aldo Moro case by Richard Drake
The Moro case has given rise to endless conspiracy theories, and, in trying to determine their real worth, the historian faces the perennial questions about evidence, logic, and interpretation in historical argument.
Government officials hostile to Moro might have attempted to sabotage efforts to free him, and with all the mistakes and oversights in the police search, about which many books have been written, the temptation to see the workings of a conspiracy is understandable.
Nevertheless, they undertook the Moro operation and all their operations with the single-minded aim of accelerating the cause of revolution, exactly as Lenin had with his tactics.
www.newcriterion.com /archive/17/nov98/drake.htm   (2325 words)

  
 The African contribution to the edification of the modern world
A comparison between Africa and Europe, thinking of Aldo Moro", was first presented at the memorial ceremony in Rome on May 14, 2002 marking the XXIV anniversary of the death of Aldo Moro.
Being a heir of this struggle, Aldo Moro drew from two large cultural sources in Europe: the philosophy of the right of the human person, of which the Frenchman Jacques Maritain was one of the theorist between the two World Wars, and the philosophy of social culture developed mainly in Germany and Italy.
Moro expresses the belief that politics and ethics cannot be dissociated from aesthetics.
www.africansocieties.org /n3/eng_dic2002/memelfo.htm   (3045 words)

  
 Buongiorno, notte (2003)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Plot Outline: The 1978 kidnapping and murder of Aldo Moro, president of the most important political party in Italy at the time, Democrazia Cristiana, as seen from the perspective of one of his assailants -- a conflicted young woman in the ranks of the Red Brigade.
Aldo Moro's kidnapping and murder was at its time a huge event for the Italian history and the world.
It is Aldo Moro's portrait played by Roberto Herlitzka which seems surprinsigly more sketchy, and I had the feeling that a greater message about the relationship between kidnapper and victim was missed.
www.imdb.com /title/tt0377569   (468 words)

  
 Movie Database - tvguide.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Of all the political kidnappings of the 1970s, few were as traumatic as the 1978 abduction of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro by members of the left-wing extremist group the Red Brigade.
Moro had recently negotiated an alliance between his own Christian Democratic Party and the Italian Communist party; by kidnapping him, the Red Brigade hoped to foment enough political unrest to lead domesticated communists back to their revolutionary roots.
Moro reminds her too much of her father, an antifascist resistance fighter, and knows that in killing Moro they will be murdering a husband and a father while creating a martyr.
online.tvguide.com /movies/database/ShowMovie.asp?MI=46554   (375 words)

  
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The Moro Affair 25 Years On 25 years after the kidnapping and murder of the Christian Democrat leader Aldo Moro by the Red Brigades in the centre of Italy's capital city, there continues to be considerable debate about both the facts of the case (e.g.
Given the international implications of Moro's overtures to the PCI during the Cold War, the possibility of some degree of American involvement in the affair has frequently been raised, whilst a few have also invoked manoeuvres by Russians hostile to Euro-Communism, and Israelis hostile to Moro's pro-Palestinian leanings.
Controversy continues to rage over the issues of whether negotiations for Moro's release were possible, and whether they were deliberately sabotaged by his fellow-Christian Democrats Andreotti and Cossiga on the one side and/or by the Red Brigades, particularly by their hard-line leader Mario Morretti, on the other.
www.rhul.ac.uk /Italian/asmi/Abse.html   (362 words)

  
 Caso Moro, Il (1986)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On March 16, in the morning, Aldo Moro is traveling with his escort from home to the Parlament, where he's supposed to start formally the new government.
Moro is found dead in a car's boot, on May 9 1978.
Moro was let die because he was an adversary for everyone...
www.imdb.com /title/tt0090805   (648 words)

  
 This Day in History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
On May 9, 1978, the body of former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro is found, riddled by bullets, in the back of a car in the center of historic Rome.
Aldo Moro was regarded by many as Italy's most capable post-World War II politician.
Moro last served as prime minister in 1976, and in October 1976 became president of the Christian Democrats.
www.historychannel.com /tdih/tdih.jsp?month=10272957&day=10272974&cat=10272946   (641 words)

  
 GOOD MORNING, NIGHT
The turning point in Italy was the 1978 murder of Aldo Moro by members of the Red Brigade, a student group that went from organizing workers to kidnapping politicians.
Once he is hidden in his room, Moro is subjected to lengthy interrogations by Mariano.
Moro's calm dignity is just one of the reasons why the others begin to question the Red Brigade's tactics.
www.filmjournal.com /filmjournal/reviews/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001478461   (464 words)

  
 Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Moro, Aldo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
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Moro, Aldo MORO, ALDO [Moro, Aldo], 1916-78, Italian political leader.
www.encyclopedia.com /articles/08769.html   (257 words)

  
 News and projects of composer Filippo Del Corno
The texts from where the words will be taken are: the letters Aldo Moro wrote to politicians, relatives, collaborators; the Memoriale written by Moro in the BR’s jail; BR’s official bulletins; documents by Police, Army, Goverment and secret Services; articles, reports and interviews.
Aldo Moro was abducted on march 16th 1978 during a bloody action realized by Brigate Rosse, a group of communist terrorists.
The epilogue was tragic: Moro was killed on may 9th and his body was found in a car on a street in the centre of Rome.
www.filippodelcorno.it /english/news/news.htm   (310 words)

  
 Good Morning, Night   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Moro even writes to the pope to gain concessions that would win his release.
While all of this is happening, Bellocchio imagines conversations between Moro and his communist kidnappers, chiefly their ideologue leader Mariano, a dialogue in which the two parties talk past each other.
A movie about the Moro incident should be unsettling, and this one is. The failure of ideology to justify such a crime is clearly dramatized by Bellocchio.
www.hollywoodreporter.com /thr/reviews/review_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1983579   (673 words)

  
 Aldo Moro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Aldo Moro was born in Maglie, Italy, on 23rd September, 1916.
The country suffered from severe economic problems and Moro was unable to introduce the reforms he had promised.
Moro was kidnapped on 16th March 1978 after left-wing Red Brigade gunmen ambushed his car killing his chauffeur and five policemen.
www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /COLDmoro.htm   (255 words)

  
 Moro Aldo - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
Moro Aldo - Search Results - ninemsn Encarta
The strength of the Italian terrorists, the most prominent of whom were the Red Brigades, may stem from the country’s anarchist tradition and its...
The most notorious of the Red Brigades' acts was the kidnapping and murder of the former Italian prime minister Aldo Moro in 1978.
au.encarta.msn.com /Moro_Aldo.html   (113 words)

  
 The Sphinx and the Gladiators: How Neo-Fascists Steered the Red Brigades
Aldo Moro was kidnapped on Feb. 16, 1978, the day when the fruit of his political work, a government of "national solidarity," with the active support of the PCI, was supposed to be voted in Parliament.
During the Moro kidnapping, despite the fact that Moretti's identity as a terrorist was known to the police, he succeeded in escaping the attention of this density of police and intelligence structures.
One of the most striking aspects of the Moro case is that Aldo Moro, during his 55-day captivity, was interrogated by his kidnappers, and he revealed the existence of Gladio, the Nato "Stay-Behind" network.
www.larouchepub.com /other/2005/3203_sphinx.html   (2991 words)

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