Forging documents so that a Red Brigade loony can assassinate some country's Foreign Minister just for a few paragraphs in the world's press.

The police minimized the significance of a Red Brigades five-pointed star symbol found scrawled on Mr. Biagi's apartment building door, saying they were not sure how long it had been there.

The decision not to negotiate, not to give in to Red Brigades demands for legitimacy, spelled the beginning of the end for it and its campaign of murder.

In December 1981, he was kidnapped by the leftist Italian Red Brigades Marxist terrorist group.

In March, a gunfight broke out on a train traveling from Rome to Florence, between two Red Brigades suspects and the police, who had asked to see their identity cards.

They look for strong authoritarian regimes, capable of stamping out a Red Brigades or a Baader-Meinhof no matter how indiscriminate the process, or how much legitimate dissent goes down with them.

The Paris police arrested Maurizio Locusta, reputed leader of a Red Brigades terrorist unit wanted in the killing of an Italian general, and a companion, official sources said today.

During this exhibit he formed an art group called the 'Red Brigade', which held the 'Vanguard' exhibition in 1987.

L'Histoire secrète des Red Brigades racontée par leur fondateur, Alberto Franceschini.

Prospero Gallinari, 62, Italian terrorist (Red Brigades).