The World - News from June 19, 1988
Italian authorities displayed arms, ammunition and money seized during a raid on a Red Brigades hide-out last week and said the items may provide answers in four killings. Prosecutors said ballistics tests might determine whether the nine suspects arrested in the raid, who are accused of being members of the left-wing terrorist group, used the weapons to kill U.S. diplomat Leaman R. Hunt, Italian Sen. Roberto Ruffilli, economist Ezio Tarantelli and former Florence Mayor Lando Conti. The Red Brigades claimed responsibility for all of the killings, including the 1984 murder of Hunt. The group was behind a string of violence in the 1970s.
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