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 information blackout 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 appeal to the Red Brigades (January 14)

"This is the first time I address myself directly to the Red Brigades. Not to the people who make up the Red Brigades, but to this monstrous abstraction which is thus called. And I am not addressing myself to them in the name of the values they have been treading on for years, nor in the name of their future repentance. Rather, I am submitting then this simple problem, letting them sense its solution - to their momentary advantage. You have disdainfully denied being the "blind means of other people's sharp-eyed manoeuvres". But are you not assailed by the doubt that you are such means, by killing Judge D'Urso at this point? Look around you, ask your companions, think, if you can. Your cause, the cause which you say you struggle for, has long since been lost: would it not be a tragic joke, to realize tomorrow that you have ruthlessly operated for interests which you will be the first victims of?".

"Leonardo Sciascia".