Yesterday marked the 30th anniversary of a watershed event, both for contemporary Western politics and for the Catholic church: the kidnapping of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the ...

Aldo Moro, the forner Italian prime minister who was murdered by the Communist Red Brigades in 1978, may become beatified, the first step toward sainthood, according to the Rome Diocese. In one of the ...

ROME, March 11 (UPI) -- A U.S. State Department employee says he played a critical role in the killing of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro. Steve Pieczenik, a hostage negotiator, said in a book ...

“Beware the Ides of March”—or even the day after. On the morning of 16 March 1978 in Rome’s central via Fani, the Red Brigades (BR) kidnapped Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro, head of the Christian ...

IN ITALY, almost nothing seems straightforward. In a country where public life is ruled even more than elsewhere by ideology, corruption, back-scratching and hidden interests, the basic ...

film profile], presented in competition at Venice Film Festival in 2003, the director tells the story of the kidnapping of Aldo Moro (played by Roberto Herlitzka), from the point of view of the ...

Veteran Italian auteur Marco Bellocchio returned to Cannes this year with “Exterior Night,” a limited TV series about the 1978 kidnapping and assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro ...

At 8:45 AM on March 16, 1978, four gunmen dressed in airline uniforms ambush Aldo Moro's convoy, fire more than 100 rounds, kill all five members of his security detail and abduct him in a vehicle ...

The Italian master Marco Bellocchio turns to TV, revisiting the mysteries of the Aldo Moro affair. By Mike Hale When the great Italian filmmaker Marco Bellocchio made “Good Morning, Night” in 2003, ...

At age 85, the venerable Marco Bellocchio knows a few things about filmmaking, including how to mine his metaphors out of realism: During an early scene in the absorbing, six-part “Exterior Night,” ...