Correspondents' Correspondence Italian Terror
SENIGALLIA, SILVIO F.
Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS Italian Terror Rome—Two weeks after being shot at close...
...Perhaps the most valuable find of all is a wall painting, and some experts think the painting above Philip's tomb is more significant than what was found inside...
...They [both] wage," he wrote in his last column, "the same war against institutions, the principles of civil coexistence, the basic interests of the community...
...But that his hatred of the present political Establishment can so cloud his better judgment is certainly an ominous sign for Italian democracy.-Silvio F. Senigallia...
...But the state of archeology has changed a great deal in the last century, and Andronikos is already regretting that he made such an electrifying claim...
...Tombs, like Philip's, present a slightly different problem...
...More and more, meanwhile, arche-ologists are coming to believe that many ancient legends contain kernels of truth...
...Some of Andrea's fellow members agree that Lotta Continua's attitude toward the "armed struggle" must be reappraised...
...The position of a fallen pot, or burn marks on a wall, can help reveal the cause of a society's destruction...
...Operaia (Worker's Autonomy) that not only condone bloodshed but resort to it...
...Few moments in an excavator's life can rival that instant when he or she enters a pristine tomb...
...But they were unable to prevent the uproar in the European press that followed the expulsions...
...They were arrested and expelled in early October while trying to present Western representatives with a memorandum about transgressions of the Helsinki accords in Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia...
...They even brought a letter addressed to Soviet President Leonid I. Brezhnev to the Soviet Embassy in Belgrade...
...But even then, they are seldom blinded by the dazzle of gold or ivory...
...The overt extremist organizations provide terrorism with avowed, although occasionally critical, solidarity, psychological cover, and a vast reservoir of potential recruits...
...Each shovelful of earth is carefully sifted by hand for the most minute clues...
...And the wall paintings found at Thera give us a unique glimpse of how people fixed their hair and built their ships in 1500 BC...
...Sometimes, however, not much is left...
...At the preliminary session for the conference beginning last June, the Yugoslavs expelled activists in about 30 known cases—including Americans of Eastern European descent, women expressing concern for Soviet Jews, and French intellectuals opposing violations of the agreement by the USSR...
...The Yugoslavs later apologized to the State Department for the "misunderstanding...
...No one really believes that Bocca, a tourageous and sincere democrat, condones terrorism...
...Once they have identified a townsite, for instance, they will dig trial trenches to locate promising areas and gauge the extent of the site...
...Nevertheless, their rejection of violence is weak at best, as evidenced by the reactions to an interview that Casalegno's son, Andrea (who ironically was one of Lotto's militant members), gave to the party's daily newspaper...
...Lotta Continue/ (Continuous Struggle) and Manifesto even have six seats in the Chamber of Deputies...
...The faction's paper has often called the press "the privileged instrument used for counter-revolutionary psychological warfare and totally controlled by the regime...
...Only it was not Agamemnon...
...Grave Digging Athens—When Professor Manolis Andronikos announced last month that he had discovered the tomb of King Philip of Macedon, it recalled the moment a hundred years ago when another archeologist, Heinrich Schliemann, excavated a royal tomb at Mycenae in southern Greece...
...Andronikos' method seems to have been a mixture of documentation and chance...
...In many instances, the "unexpected guests" were, in effect, proxies for repressed dissidents in Communist countries who could not hope to travel to the conference...
...The position of a wall or doorway can reveal their sense of architecture and town planning...
...In Frankfurt, Pavlovskis gave a lengthy interview on German television and showed some of the documents he had hoped to circulate among the delegations...
...The net effect was a worse embarrassment to the Soviet Union and Yugoslavia than if the lobbyists had been left alone, and subsequently, a second group of Baltic emigres was allowed to visit Western representatives...
...Voicing a widespread fear, Minister of Police Francesco Cossiga accused the terrorists of deliberately initiating "a process of actions and reactions which, if unchecked, could totally upset Italy's political equilibrium...
...Whatever, the 14-nation proposal is an indication of the willingness of Western representatives to listen to anyone seeking to correct a violation of Helsinki.-Juris Kaza...
...One notorious village in the Nile Valley makes its living largely from selling its only natural resource, pottery stolen from tombs...
...Andrea, after denying that his opinions had been affected by the killing of his father, condemned the Brigades' progressive "dehumaniza-tion...
...Other Italian far-Left factions are allegedly willing to abide by the rules of parliamentary democracy...
...The prospect of meeting with death is not exactly conducive to political analysis, and editors are pressing the government for more police protection...
...The abhorrence of terrorism is overwhelming, yet it is not unanimous...
...Describing newsmen as "sowers of hatred, doubts, insinuation and suspicion," the paper warned them: "Reflect before writing your piece...
...In the old days, archeologists simply dug for treasure, but now they are much more careful...
...Ironically, now that Yugoslavia has softened its position toward lobbyists, there are fewer of them in Belgrade...
...The organization itself admits to a majority of the 60-odd attacks on politicians, journalists and businessmen in 1977...
...Journalists, of course, are a favorite target of the Red Brigades...
...Publicity can detract from the real significance of a discovery...
...The first problem for any archeologist is to find a site, and often, they are discovered by accident...
...Perhaps many of the Western-based groups fired their first and only volleys in the summer session...
...Residue at the bottom of a bowl tells what they grew and drank...
...A joint delegation of emigres from the three Soviet-occupied Baltic countries, for example, came to Belgrade to complain, among other things, about Helsinki violations documented by the Lithuanian monitoring group, only three of whose members remain at liberty and in Lithuania...
...Representatives of most political parties, including Communist leader Enrico Berlinguer, who has denounced this "new form of fascism," have severely condemned the Red Brigades—thought to be responsible for about 80 per cent of the political terrorist acts committed in Italy last year...
...The official Yugoslav news agency tanjug explained the hard line by saying the authorities wanted to "prevent the meeting from becoming a court of appeal visited by unexpected guests for the purpose of voicing their sentiments in the form of petitions, slogans or even demonstrations...
...This procedure takes a lot of time and money, but the point is to build up an entire picture of a civilization, not just touch the highlights...
...The island civilization of Thera, the most likely origin of the Atlantis legend, was discovered when a goat put its foot through the floor of a cave and revealed a staircase...
...The world is always stirred by such discoveries, with their hordes of great wealth and attachments to legendary names...
...Restoring these paintings is an art in itself: Technicians are able to reassemble these ancient masterpieces from the smallest fragments...
...But it was also a reprimand to the Yugoslav government for its treatment of interest groups from the West who had sought to influence the Belgrade meeting...
...For the moment, though, all they are getting is the vitriolic criticism of radical Socialist colleagues, like Giorgio Bocca, who apparently resent the fracas over the Casalegno episode and even seem to suggest that the stricken man asked for it...
...The main thrust of the motion, of course, was a gesture of support for human-rights activists and unofficial groups in Moscow (see "The Road to My Arrest," by Yuri Orlov, NL, March 14), Lithuania, the Ukraine, Armenia, and elsewhere in the USSR...
...Conservative parliamentarians see the latest rash of terror as underscoring their call for more stringent and repressive measures to protect law and order...
...Krasts went back to Sweden, where the news of her treatment in Belgrade was widely reported...
...then it is the job of a modern artist to try to understand the themes and spirit of his ancient colleague and complete the painting from fragmentary evidence...
...His murder shocked political observers here—a group no longer easily shocked—and has prompted another round of discussion on the snbwballing violence that is plaguing the nation...
...After he had found a golden death mask at the bottom of a grave, he cabled the King of Greece: "I have gazed upon the face of Agamemnon...
...Charred bones in a hearth tell what people ate...
...Grave robbing is one of the world's oldest professions—second, perhaps, only to prostitution—and few valuable caches remain unplundered...
...The good digger will look on the floor for a coin that might have been dropped by some careless, long-dead workman.-Steven V. Roberts Lobbying Belgrade Munich—Early in November at the Helsinki follow-up conference in Belgrade, 14 Western countries introduced a proposal that would guarantee international protection to individuals and organizations monitoring implementation of the 1975 accords...
...Modern technology has made the tiniest seed or piece of charcoal an invaluable relic...
...Indeed, many people believe that Casalegno's murder was punishment for his denouncing the links between the subversive far-Left and the terrorists...
...The mask belonged to a king who was even older than the hero of the Trojan war...
...But others denounce the interview and its tenor, asserting the need for violence as "an instrument of political struggle and in everyday life, beyond any form of sophistry, opportunism, genteelness...
...He just kept looking—for 25 years?until he hit the jackpot...
...Ancient Pella, Philip's capital, was first identified 20 years ago when a villager found a piece of marble column while building a storeroom...
...Today, archeology is a highly competitive science in which grains of corn, or shards of pottery, are just as important as golden diadems...
...Or else...
...He termed as "insane" and un-revolutionary their disregard for the lives and safety of innocent people, and lamented the ever-widening rift between the generation of 1968 dissenters, to which he belongs, and his younger comrades...
...To the left of the Communist party, now generally regarded as part of the Establishment, there are groups like the Nuclei Armati Proletari (Armed Revolutionary Strike Force) and Autonomic...
...Apparently Philip's final resting place remained untouched only because another tomb had been built on top of it: The grave robbers felt they had cleaned the place out when they found the first one...
...He knew that the region of Vergina was close to Pella, the Macedonian capital, and rich in tomb sites...
...The late Professor Carl Ble-gen used Homer's Odyssey to help locate the palace of Nestor at Pylos, and British excavators are now using the same guidebook in their search for Menelaus' palace at Sparta...
...Politicians from other parties stress the existence of a link between the Red Brigades and foreign terrorists, such as the Red Army Faction so furiously at work in West Germany...
...Correspondents' Correspondence BRIEF TAKEOUTS OF MORE THAN PERSONAL INTEREST FROM LETTERS AND OTHER COMMUNICATIONS RECEIVED BY THE EDITORS Italian Terror Rome—Two weeks after being shot at close range by members of the notorious Brigale Rosse (Red Brigades), Carlo Casalegno, editor and columnist for Turin's prestigious daily La Stampa, died in a hospital there...
...Pavlovskis, an American citizen, was forced to leave the country shortly before he was to meet with the United States delegation, triggering a sharp protest by Ambassador Arthur J. Goldberg...
...Surprisingly, at the substantive fall session the Yugoslavs have strongly modified their stand on outside lobbyists, apparently as a result of an incident involving two Latvian emigres, Olgerts Pavlovskis from the United States and Mudite Krasts from Sweden...
Vol. 61 • January 1978 • No. 1
