DOF: Italy-Historic Compromise?

no compromise for history
photo: corpse of Aldo Moro (33K)

Image: The corpse of Aldo Moro, discoverd on Via Caetani, Rome, on May 9, 1978. Moro, leader of the Christian Democratic Party, was kidnapped on the morning of March 16, 1978 as he drove to Parliament to present a controversial proposal known as the "historic compromise" in which Communist opposition would take a more active and supportive role in the Italian government. The murder, never fully solved, has been a compelling story for Italians ever since -- another strand in a long history of ideological extremism entwined with political violence. (credit: Italian newspaper photo-source unknown)

Sound: fragment of Cantata Profana by Béla Bartók, a song of the son to his father. Text:
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"we shall...hurl you past the clearings,
and past the valleys and past the mountains
and we shall smash your body
on a dreadful rockface,
treat you with no mercy,
our beloved father,
treat you with no mercy!"

Prepared by: Linda Fisher & Maria Pia DiBella