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6A PRESS Thursday, March 30, 1978 Vatican may enter Moro case VATICAN CITY (UPD The Vatican hinted today it would be willing to intervene with "humanitarian acts" to secure the release of kidnapped former Premier Aldo Moro. The Vatican statement came 15 days after Moro was kidnapped by the leftist Red Brigades guerrillas and a day after a letter purportedly written 1 by Moro said I he might have to reveal "unpleasant and dangerous" information if officials do not cooperate with his captors. At the same time. Italian police threat to begin killing 148 Red Brigades sources said a reported a underworld prisoners in eight maximum security prisons today apparently fizzled. is known, the Holy See has never backed away in the face of carrying out humanitarian actions," Vatican spokesman Don Pierfranco Pastore told reporters.

Pastore made the comment when reporters asked him about a passage in the alleged Moro letter issued Wednesday night that suggested the Vatican could take action to win the politician's release. "I think a previous step by the Holy See or by someone else? Who? could be useful." the letter said. Pastore said that before any Vatican action could be considered, "many uncertain and dark points would have to be clarified" about the purported Moro letter. Although Pastore did not mention the incident, Pope Paul VI offered himself as a substitute hostage for about 100 passengers held hostage aboard a Lufthansa Five Locations: given medical assistance as late as a week before her death. Ukiah Petaluma The prosecution argued that the two 4th 519 Street priests and the young woman's parents must Montgomery Village have recognized that she was dying and that The Fashion Coddingtown medical help was necessary to save her.

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Anneliese Michel. died of starvation in 1976 at the age of 23. Charged with manslaughter in the case were the two priests. Arnold Renz, 67. and Ernst Alt.

40, and the victim's parents, Josef and Anna Michel. According to the indictment. a diagnosis by doctors determined that the woman was an epileptic. But the two priests thought she had symptoms of being possessed by the devil and applied to their bishop for permission to begin an exorcism process. Bishop Josef Stangl of Wuerzburg granted the permission and Alt began exorcism.

After his transfer to another parish, Renz continued the program, reading exorcism prayers three times weekly in the Michel home, the indictment said. Before the opening of the trial, Miss Michel's father, Josef Michel, asked the court for permission to say a brief prayer. But presiding judge Elmar Bohlaender turned down his request. 'We are in a court room and not in a church," Bohlaender said. During the exorcism rites Miss Michel refused food and her weight dropped to 70 pounds before she died at home.

A psychiatric expert brought into the case by the prosecution was quoted as saying she could have been saved if she had been CODDINGTOWN MALL airliner in Mogadishu, Somalia last year. The pope's offer became unnecessary when West German commandos freed the Mogadishu hostages. Italian officials, meanwhile, were worried about the alleged Moro letter because of hints he might be forced to reveal political secrets of past administrations. sources, meanwhile, said no such slayings as those supposedly threatened by Italian underworld figures were reported. The reports had set a deadline of 4 a.m.

today. The Rome newspaper 11 Messaggero reported Tuesday it had received a letter from underworld crime bosses complaining the massive police search for Moro had cut into their business. The letter said the crime bosses threatened to have Red Brigades prisoners killed if Moro was not released. Police have said common crime in the country has gone down 60 percent since the Moro kidnapping. Interior Minister Francesco Cossiga received what investigators thought was an authentic handwritten letter from Moro Wednesday night, and held an emergency meeting with Premier Giulio Andreotti to discuss the government's res response.

Moro was kidnapped two weeks ago today by ultra-leftist Red Brigades terrorists, who shot and killed his five police bodyguards. The letter was the first direct communication from. the frail. 61-year-old Moro. Photocopies of the letter were found in Rome.

Milan. Genoa and Turin garbage cans by reporters alerted by telephone. Police said the letter seemed genuine and top investigator Luciano Infelisi to said: This is The letter, addressed to Cossiga, said drug the Red Brigades were subjecting Moro to an intensive "people's trial." am under full and unchecked domination. subjected to a people's trial that can be graduated as is seen fit." Moro said. "I am in this position with all the knowledge and sensitivity deriving from my long experience, with the risk of being called or induced to say things that might be unpleasant and dangerous in certain The letter did not elaborate on this warning or say what the Red Brigades demands were.

Politicians said they did not believe Moro was acquainted in detail with NATO defense secrets. But as a five-time premier and a minister in nine postwar cabinets he may know political secrets damaging to his scandal-ridden Christian Democratic party. Politicians have speculated the Red Brigades may use Moro as a hostage to demand freedom for the gang's founder, Renato Curcio, and other group members currently standing trial in Turin. The letter urged Andreotti to confer with President Giovanni Leone and other top politicians and persuade whoever may be reluctant to give in to Red Brigades demands. May God enlighten you, sparing you from being mired in a painful episode on which many things might depend," it said.

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