In 1982 - Italian anti-terrorist police rescued U.S. Brigadier-General James Dozier from Red Brigades guerrillas who had kidnapped him 42 days earlier.

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France, for example, has long sheltered suspects sought by Italy for urban guerrilla attacks by the now-defunct Marxist Red Brigades movement in the 1970s.

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Her father was a wealthy industrialist-cum-musician who feared the campaign of kidnappings being carried out at the time by the far-left Red Brigades in Italy.

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Andrew McCarthy plays David, an American reporter and would-be fiction writer secretly writing a novel on the Red Brigades while working for an English-language newspaper in Rome.

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Mr. Andreotti was prime minister of that coalition when Aldo Moro, a fellow Christian Democrat leader, was kidnapped in March 1978 by the Red Brigades, a left-leaning terrorist group.

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One study of the Red Brigades, the Italian terrorist group of the nineteen-seventies, found that seventy per cent of recruits had at least one good friend already in the organization.

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