ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1981, Serena regarded her enrollment in the UC Riverside master's program as a temporary journey. In the years to follow, the escalation of terrorism was marked by a similar massacre on the Italicus train, and by the capture and murder of Prime Minister Moro, in 1978. Terrorist organizations embraced various political ideologies. It culminated in another massacre, at the Bologna Railway Station in 1980, where eighty-five people were killed. Like most prominent people in the left who did not share the ideology of terrorism, grandpa Dario was in a delicate position. His success was dependent on the willingness of both Christian Democracy and Communist Party to collaborate. It turned out he had good reasons to be apprehensive, for years later interpretations of the Moro case suggest his fellow party members, the hardliners, were the ones who abandoned him to the Red Brigades.
