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(N.Z.P.A.-Reuter—Copyright) MILAN (Italy), March 17.
The dynamite-blasted body of a millionaire left-wing publisher, Giangiacomo Feltrinelli, has been found next to an electricity pylon primed for sabotage, police here said.
Left-wing groups immediately said that Feltrinelli, aged 45, a friend of the Cuban Prime Minister, Dr Fidel Castro, a former member of the Italian Communist Party and a backer of extreme left-wingers, had been assassinated. Feltrinelli, who inherited a big lumber fortune, was the man whose publishing house, founded in 1954, gave the world Boris Pasternak’s “Dr Zhivago,” Thomasi di Lampedusa’s “Il Gattopardo” (“The Leopard”), and also held the European rights for the diary of the Latin American guerrilla leader, Ernesto “Che” Guevara.
His body, identified by his German former wife Inge Schoental, and by the director of the “Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Institute for the Study of the Working Class Movement” was found on Wednesday night lying multi lated beside the pylon partially wired with dynamite charges.
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Press, Volume CXII, Issue 32869, 18 March 1972, Page 17
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