f PAGE 2, THE HERALD, Wednesday, May 10, 1978 Aldo Moro’s body found ROME (AP) ~~ The blood- smeared body of former Italian premier Aldo Moro, shot in the head and his hands and feet chained, was found in a parked car in the heart of Rome today, 55 days after he was kidnapped by the Red Brigades. Police said they found five spent cartridges inthe car, a red Renault bearing Rome licence plates and later determined to have been stolen. The 61-year-old Moro also had several wounds in the body, police sources said. The body was clad in a blue overcoat, wrapped in a red blanket and dumped on the floor of the car’s backseat. Firemen who saw it said the face was ex- tremely pale and Mora's five-foot, ll-inch frame had lost considerable weight. The discovery ended tragi- cally an ordeal that trauma- tized Italy and transfixed the attention of the world. The body was found at 1:40p,.m.onVia Michelangelo Caetani, a narrow cobblestoned street of i5th-and 16th-century palaces running alongside Communist . party headquarters and just a stone’s throw from Christian Democratic headquarters. It was just two blocks from the busiest intersection in Rome. ANONYMOUS CALL Officers went to the area and discovered the body after police headquarters received an anonymous telephone call saying a bomb had been placed in a car parked en Via Funari, a street adjacent to the 200- metrelong Via Caetani. They found nothing on Via Funari but then checked Via Caetani. The car apparently had been parked on the street for several hours, police said. The body was loaded into an ambulance and taken away. Police cordoned off the area. Crowds of weeping Romans congregated on the tiny street. “Bastards, bastards,” one woman cried. ''He suffered so much,” Police cars with sirens whining sped through the city, deserted ag usual during the sarly-afterncon lunch hours. Police said they had .received other tips before the discovery of the car and were throwing out dragnets across the city. — Franco Evangelisti,: top aide to Premier Giulio Andreotti, made the first official identification of the body. Via Caetani leads into Via Botteghe Oscure, site of Communist party headquarters two block: from the traffic-filled Piazza Venezla intersection. The Italian Communist party's directorate went into session immediately, an party official Giancarl Pajetta said as he entered the meeting: “This jis a crime of sadist ferocity.” | KIDNAPPED MARCH 16 Moro, president of the governing Christiar Democrat party and five- time former premier, was kidnapped March 18 in a Rome street ambush that killed his five -police bodyguards, Last Friday, his Red Brigade captors issued the last of a serles of messages, saying they were “carrying out”? a death ‘verdict’ against him because the Christian Democrats had re- . fused to negotiate theit demand for the release of 13 jailed terrorists in exchange for Moro’s life. During Moro's 54-day captivity, the Marxist urban guerrillas had deliverec “communiques’ to the news media saying Moro, generally regarded as Italy’s most influential politica leader, had been ‘sen tenced’”’ to death at a “people's trial’ on grounds that his Christian Democrats had taken anti-proletarian stands during their three decades as Italy’s governing rty. Moro himself wrote a stream of letter to political leaders urging them tc bargain with his captors. In a desperate handwritter letter April 24, Moro said: “We are at zero hour. .... Massacre time is ap proaching.”’ Italy’s interior minister, Francesco Cossiga, one of Moro’s Christian Democrat proteges, was one of the first to arrive at the scene after pelice and bomb experts opened the doors of the parked car. Since the kidnapping, the area had been one of the most heavily guarded neigh- borheods of Rome. The Communist party recently installed, floodlights .anc closed-circuit television cameras scanning its front doorstep 24 hours a day. Christian Democrat headquarters on nearby ‘Piazza del Gesu had been. surrounded by submachine gun-toting soldier preventing “scores of curious Romans from approaching the 16th- _eentury palace during the 7g-week drama. . Despite this tight security, the terrorists were able to infiltrate the very heart of e and dump Moro’s body in its Lettuce prices will go down VANCOUVER (CP) After hitting an all-time high of $1.29 a head in some city supermarkets, lettuce prices are on their way down due to improved weather con- ditions in California and the consumer’s refusal to pay high prices, supermarket spokesmen said Monday. Woodward's Stores spokesman C. L. Keetch said the price drop to 79 cents a head in some stores was largely due to eastern markets in Chicago and New York, where consumers re- fused to pay $1.59 to $1.69 for a head of lettuce. The resulting drop in demand for lettuce created a surplus of the product, and forced the price cuts, he said. RCMP Super-Vain Stores spokesman Shirley Brown said the impreved weather conditions in California have allowed farmers to get into the fields to harvest. But she said the situation could change at any time depen- ding on the weather and the perishable nature of lettuce. “They've had peculiar weather down there, but we think the worst is over,” she said. Lettuce is selling for 89 cents a head at Super-Valu and Woodward's and for 70 cents at Safeway. Lettuce from the lower Fraser Valley should be on the Vancouver market in the third week of June but will not cause a significant price change, Keetch said. admits _, punching (CP) RCMP Const. Gary Kirk- patrick said, Monday that he punched a Surrey, B.C. man- in the stomach during a drug search, but he said he did it to yrevent the man from swallowing a cap of heroin police thought he might have had in his mouth. Kirkpatrick and fellow RCMP constables Hugh Stewart and David Moll, Vancouver police detective John Edwards and the city of Vancouver are heing sued for damages in an alleged case of mistaken identity. Gerald Schuck and his wife say they were assaulted and falsely arrested during an incident at a drive-in restaurant here last July. The case is belng heard by Justice George Murray of the British Columbia Supreme Court. - The couple had been to a movie, then walked along a downtown street before driving to the drive-in, They were sipping drinks when four police officers, who the couple thought were thieves confronted them. They alleged that they were unjustifiably abused, that the husband was grabbed by the neck as he sat at the wheel of his car and was pulled out of the car by the hair when he resisted, that the wife was taken violently out of the car by her wrists and that both were handcuffed while officera searched unsucceasfully for drugs. OFFICER HIDDEN The court was told that a hidden officer using binoculars saw a woman buying drugs from a known pusher In a downtown cafe and radioed her description to walting officers who spotted a man and woman driving away from the area. political establishment. midst. SITE SYMBOLIC Their choice of a site was symbolic, The headquarters of Italy's two largest parties are only 200 Metrea apart, and the Red Brigades have bitterly denounced the Communists for thelr un- precedented parliamentary alliance, engineered by Moro, with the minority ‘Christian Democrat government. In the last few. months, Communist leaders have walked the short distance for meetings to discuss policy with the Christian Democrats. The Communists had been among the staunchest foes of dealing with the terrorists for Moro’s life. Moro, who had been ex- pected to become the country’s next president was kidnapped on the very day parliament approved the Communist-Christian Demio- crat agreement, The Red Brigades, signing themselves as ‘true representatives of — the proletariat’ and of Com- munists, claim the Italian Communist party has sold out the working class. ’ & distant figure to most Italians, Moro was pictured in cartoons as a Sphinx whose thoughts were un- derstandable only to a select few. A personal friend of Pope Paul, he was known for his dark doublebreasted suits, a stack of newspapers under his arm and a streak of silver across his dark, close-cropped hair, ~ Italy's poner premier, Aleide de Gasperi, .was credited with bringing Moro into politics and the five-foot, ll-inch newcomer was ‘capped two elected his first time out in 1946 toa seatin the Chamber | of Deputies, the lower howe. After that he wen every subsequent election to parliament. Moro entered the govern- ment in 1955 as justice minister and held verious cabinet seats until 1976 when he took over the presidency of the badly disarrayed Christian Democrats after an election in which they ran just four percentage points ahead of the Communiats. Moro's gift at striking a compromise was put to work in an attempt to bring peace to the skaky alliance bet- ween the Christian Democrats and the Italian Communist party, led by Enrico Berlinguer who pledged his members to following Western — democratic principles and helped create the doctrine of Eurocommunism which maintained its independence from the Kremlin. MORO KEY FIGURE The agreement worked out brought the Communists into the parliamentary majority for the first time in 31 years, awarding them a policy role without actually bringing them into the cabinet. It months of patient negotiations with Moro as a key figure. This accomplished, Mcro was tipped to take over from ‘fellow Christian Democrat Giovanni Leone when the largely ceremonial post of president of Italy became yacant in December. That chance never came, Moro's family appealed to the party leaders for a change of heart, but the officiais stood firm. BCR strike © NORTH VANCOUVER (cP) — British Columbia Railway freight trains were all at a standstill today as union employees set up picket lines from one end of the line to the other in a dispute stemming from a strike by another union at the Husky Oil Ltd. refinery Tear Prince George, B.C. Only movement on the tracks of the Crown-owned railway involved regular passenger runs from the north and south. Su Bory staff kept those trains -- but freight service was tied up completely. Six unions of the joint railway council set u pickets Monday night a along the B.C. Rail line to protest railway supervisors moving tank cars through picket lines at the refinery where the Oi], Chemical and Atomic Workers Union is on strike, The parties met at the B.C, Labor Relations Board until early today in a bid to settle the picketing dispute by mediation, however, the marathon attempt failed and the board was expected to call a formal hearing today or Wednesday. Before the picketing, B.C. ’ council of the Confederation of Trades Union placed a hot edict Monday on all Husky products. The council, which represents 30,000 workers across Canada, said engineers on B,C. Rail, members of the Canadian Union of Transportation Employees, will not handle any products originating from the refinery. MET SEVEN HOURS No resolution was reached between B.C, Rail and joint council, said Ron Bone, labor relations board vice- chairman, following the seven-haur emergency meeting. ’ “We called the (Monday night) meeting to see whether we could resolve the issues that. caused the, walkout by the ‘trade union . members,” said Bone, . He would-not disclose the = issues but eaid that “at this hour of the morning, I think both parties have a very clear understanding of each, others position.” vote Mac Norris, B.C. Rail vicepresident, said the ‘thot car issue” was the point of contention throughout the meeting, “They consider a praduct from the plant a hot car when on our property’ and that's the crux of the dispute ‘here now,” said Norris, “It’s been a long arduous night and nothing has been resolved.” Glen Bowles of the United . Transportation Union... representing trainmen, said - that aggravation agains! management has’ been building up for months but would not expand on specific issues. He said supervisors triggered the full dispute when they moved the tank cars across.the spur line where the oil workers union has been on strike since April 19. _Rehab centre for Kamloops VANCOUVER (CP) — A rehabilitation centre where handicapped persons ‘could become self-reliant through outdoor and indoor sports is being planned for the Kamloops, B.C., area, sayd Chris Cooke, a remedial theraplat at Vancouver's G, F. Strong Rehabilitation Centre, Cooke, who has helped organize cross-country skiing for- the blind, says sports such as swimming, skiing, winter camping, running and horseback riding are not only well within the capabllities of many handicapped persons, but could actually help them. become increasingly inde- pendent. With the organizational support of the Sons of Nor- way of British Columbia, Cooke is looking at 200: acre sites within a 100-mile radius of Kamloops ‘where the handicapped could go for intensive, three-to-four-week activity therapy under the guidance of trained sports and remedial therapists. Cooke: gat the idea of the remedial sports centre when he spent six montha last year at Beltostolen—a rehabilitation ‘sports centre in Norway, 150 miles north of Oslo. . ' “The Norwegians have of- fered their support in terms of staff and operative know- how to B,C.'s proposed facility,” Cooke said in an. . Interview Monday. Hesaid the Sons of Norway’ would be willing to start off . the fund-raising campaign with a $5,000 to $10,000 grant. and the group is preparing a . brief to submit to provincial . Health Minister Bob Mc- Clelland and federal fitness and amateur sport minister” Iona Campagnolo. He said the land would cost between $120,000 and $125,000 and the building, with facilities for 40 or 50 persons, would bring the total cost to more than $1 million, “If we can raise most of the money hy public donations, ‘we hope the provincial government will take over the operation once it is built—hopefully by 1990,'" Cooke said. The project will be discussed further, he said, at the national convention of the Sons of Norway on Vancouver Island in June. a f fo Donnie Patterson Wife batterings myths dispelled A woman who is beaten by her husband probably deserves a good kick in the ass, This myth as well as many others help perpetuate the | vicious syndrome of wife battering, forcing thousands of women to live in fear and teaching children that violence is an acceptable solution to problems, ac- carding to Donnie Patterson who was in Kitimat last week holding & workshop on battered women. _ “Society gives its per- mission to wife beating,’ Patterson‘ said, placing the blame on the woman who is actually the victim, rather than on the man who uses his physically weaker wife as a ching bag. - Wife battering is treated - asa family matter, a dispute that should be left in the home, presumably to let the head of the household deal with as he sees fit. Many women ~ accept . beatings as a natural part of married llfe, Patterson said, especially those who have grown up in homes where -such violence was a frequent oceurrance. However, many - ,women,, who. .haye . neyer..: protected. experience: this still find themselves trapped in a violent marriage. . “Battering takes place in all segments of society,’’ Patterson said, speaking of still another myth that points to lower class, uneducated families as the place where battering occurs. . More often than not bat- tering men don't allow their wives access to money, leaving them in a state of finanelal dependency which makes it difficult to escape. At the root of the. situation is the fact that the man continually humiliates and degrades his wife over a long period of time, Patterson stated, constantly attacking her feelings of self-worth to the point where she no longer believes in herself or her own abilities. . “These women feel, ‘somehow I cause my own beating,‘ Patterson said, which makes it virtually impossible for them to break out of a destructive relationship. To further complicate the situation, most women tend to hide the fact they have been beaten, mistakenly believing she has to protect her husband and keep the family together. ’ One of the most horren- dous reasons why a battered wife stays with her husband is simply fear, Patterson said. There's always the fear that no matter how fara woman runs, her husband will find her, which would . result in a fatal beating. “We lige in terror,”’ Patterson said. It’s time that men - all men -accept the responsibility for ‘wife battering, she said, but : until that happens; women, who are beaten must ‘be - Currently there are no facilities for the protection of battered wives in either Terrace or Kitimat, Pat-— terson said, and there is a need for transistion houses, more resource centre and self-help groups to help bath the battered wife and the battering husband. -/We have the money, we have the resources and we have the expertise,” she said, ‘but our priorities are elsewhere.” | Another protection bat- tered wives need is protection under the law. Most family violence in- Combines trial | continues VANCOUVER (CP) — Seized newspaper photographs depicting fishermen's union members at a 1976 anti-combines inguiry were sent to ‘wit- nesses now testifying at a“ trial of geven fishermen © charged with unlawfully impeding the inquiry, combines officer Simon Wapniarski testified Monday, . Wapniarski said that the pictures were sent to all Crown witnesses in the case except for a_ television reporter and, cameraman. The pictures, photacopies of prints made from negatives seized during a Combines Investigation Commission ‘search of Vancouver Sun newsroom Jan, 11, 1977, were entered a5 evidence at the trial. Pacific Press Ltd., which produces the evening Sun and morning Province, took the case of the seized” negatives and other materials to British Co- lumbia Supreme Court, and on June 26, 1977, Chief Justice Nathan Nemetz tuled that the search warrants issued against the Sun and Province allowing ‘the investigators to take the materials were an abuse of the process of the court, The’ warrants were quashed. WROTE NAMES Testifying under cross- examination by defence counse]) Harry Rankin, Wapniarski saldhe wrote the names of the people depicted In the photographs on themébefore sending them to the witnesses, . S, investigatior ° Asked how be knew the ‘names, Wapniarsk! said he had known some.f the ‘fishermen previously, and obtained other names by ~ matching photographs in a fishermen’s publication to the Sun’s photographs. ~ Provincial Court Judge D. D. Hume admilted- as evidencg Monday most of the . film shot by a British Columbia Television cameraman during the Dec. 6 and 7 incidents between the combines officials dnd members of the United Fish- ermen and Allied Workers' Union. Several segments which federal Crown prosecutor Arthur . MacLennan Indicated he did’: not wish included were left out. In ruling most of the film admissible, Judge Hume. pointed out that what weight he will place on itis yet to be determined, Wapniarski testified . that since obtaining the film. in, midJanuary, 1977, he had shown it a number of times to many different people, including most of the wil- nesses in the current trial, SHOWN TWICE . 0 The latest showing took place late last month jn his hotel room in Vancouver, when it was shown twice to a number of Crown witnesses, he said. Asked by Rankin whether he was tense during the Dec, 7 incident, when a crowd of fishermen .gathered in the reception, area of federal ministry of consumer affairs offices, Wapnlarski said he. was not tense, but - was worried, Fy cidents, if they are reported, are handled by the courts under the Family Relations Actrather than the Criminal - Code. Kitimat was the last stop on -Patterson's series of workshops across the nor- thwest, for Northwest Community College. ~ Patterson, who is a Burns Lake resident, has had personal experience in the problem‘ of wife battering. She said turnouts at these workshops are never large, but discussion in the amall trusting groups is “quite an emotional experience.” Not all the women who attend these workshops are battered women, but “‘all can identify with the feeling of powerlessness,” she said. Patterson will -also be doing a section on battered women for a symposium on family violence being held in Terrace in June. Shorts RURAL CRAFTS DO WELL HALIFAX (CP) — New- foundland’s rural ‘development minister; John Lundigran,* ‘sas 2 his’ - department did well in a craft trade show here recently. The show provided a.forum for craft producers in the Atlantic region to exhibit their items to the 300 - buyers who attended, JEWISH WOMEN MEET TORONTO (CP) — The International Council | a1 Jewish Women, representing 29 affiliates from 28 coun- tries with approximately 100,000 membership, wil: hold its 11th triennial con- vention May 17th thro 21st in Atlanta, Ga, T. Canadian affillate will hold its annual meeting in Atlanta prior to the international convention, . ‘ CAMP RECEIVES BUS (CP) — Merrywood Camp has received a new, specially equipped bus to transport handicapped children, The Smiths Falls Rotary Club enabled the camp to add this valuable addition to its fa- cilities as a result of extra funds available from the club’s participation in Old Home Week festivities in Smiths Falls last year. 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