ABSTRACT: The Radical Party's action to obtain the liberation of Judge Giovanni D'Urso, kidnapped by the "Red Brigades" on December 12, 1980, and to oppose that group of political and press officials that advocate his death to justify the imposition in Italy of an "emergency" government composed of "technicians". On February 15, 1981, Judge D'Urso was freed: "The Party of inflexibility was organizing and is still organizing a coup d'état: for this as for the 1921 fascism, it needs victims, but this time, unlike what happened with Moro, it has been temporarily defeated: for once, the Red Brigades have not served the purpose. The campaign conducted by Radio Radicale successfully interrupts the blackout on information ordered by the press.
("The life of Judge D'Urso", Who needed it, who sold it, how it was saved - edited by Lino Jannuzzi, Ennio Capelcelatro, Franco Roccella, Valter Vecellio - Supplement to Radical News n.3 - March 1981)
Leonardo Sciascia's first appeal to the press (10 January)
For years you have published communiqués and resolutions of the Red Brigades or of other subversive movements, completing them with news, enquiries and analyses that have greatly contributed to mythologizing them. In these last days, you have decided not to publish the documents divulged by the Red Brigades; a questionable decision, the reasons of which are not completely clear. Granted that you want to and succeed in maintaining this decision in the future - and we will do everything that is possible to make you maintain it within the most reasonable and rational limits - you are faced today with the terrible problem of maintaining it against the life of a human being.
The question is not giving in; rather, to suspend a decision that appears confused and chaotic, and which must be better analysed. The question is to suffer a blackmail in the most terrible state of necessity in which humane people can find themselves, and the question is also nailing the Red Brigades.
The first adhesions to the appeal, in order
Leonardo Sciascia
Eleonora Moro
Stella Tobagi
Andrea Casalegno
Guglielmo Pepe (La Repubblica)
Clara Valenziano (La Repubblica)
Roberto della Rovere (Corriere della Sera)
Paolo Flores D'Arcais
Ernesto Galli della Loggia
Giampiero Mughini (Europeo)
Luigi Irdi (Europeo)
Fiamma Nirenstein (Europeo)
Barbara Palombelli (Europeo)
Sergio Saviane (Espresso)
Piero Calderoni (Espresso)
Giuliano Zincone (Editor of "Il Lavoro")
Giuseppe Trotto (Il Lavoro)
Camilla Cederna (Espresso)
Gianni Baget Bozzo
Giuseppe Patat (Prima Comunicazione)
Federico Mancini
Adele Cambria (Il Giorno)
Gino Giugni
Piero Vigorelli (Il Messaggero)
Leandro Turriani (Il Messaggero)
Oriele Ermi
Maria Adele Teodori (Europeo)
Umberto Melotti (Editor of "Terzo Mondo")
Vito Cimarrusti (Gazzetta del Mezzogiorno)
Lino De Matteis (Quotidiano di Lecce)
Cesare Medail (Corriere della Sera)
Salvatore Sechi
Fulvio Jacometti (Il Messaggero)
Giuseppe Loteta (Il Messaggero)
Aurelio Candido (Il Messaggero)
Michele Tito (editor of "Secolo XIX")
Oreste del Buono (Editor of "Linus")
Pippo Ciapazzano (L'Ora)
Massimo Novelli (L'Ora)
Giorgio Vecchiato (Il Giorno)
Ludovico Baccini (Il Messaggero)
Luigi Manconi (Il Lavoro)
Chino Alessi (former editor of Il Piccolo)
Giovanni Di Berardo (Print Workers' Committee)
Massimo Alberizzi
Norberto Valentini (Domenica del Corriere)
Mauro Benedetti (Stampa Sera)
Teodoro Celli (Il Messaggero)
Riccardo Chiberge (Il Mondo)
Nino Pirito (TVS Genova)
Carlo M. Lo Martire (Il Giorno)
Pierluigi Ficonieri (Espresso)
Giuseppe Corsentino
Elisabetta Rasy (Panorama)
Virginia Visani (Annabella)
Saverio Cicala (Il Giorno)
Giovanni Buffa (Il Giorno)
Enrico Dell'Aglio (Il Giorno)
Marco Sassano (Il Giorno)
Pietro Mancini (Il Giorno)
Roberto Mancini (Il Giorno)
Roberto Giardina (Il Giorno)
Giancarlo Lue (Corriere della Sera)
Andrea Biglia (Corriere della Sera)
Ottavio Rossani (Corriere della Sera)
Giuseppe Manin (Corriere della Sera)
Fabio Cavallera (Corriere della Sera)
Giuseppe Baiocchi (Corriere della Sera)
Costantino Museau (L'Occhio)
