Red Brigades promises to free Italian judge

The Red Brigade guerrillas said they would shortly release kidnapped magistrate Giovanni D'Urso as "an act of magnanimity," the guerrillas said in a message received by the Rome newspaper II Messaggero.

The message gave no indication of when or where Judge D'Urso, would be set free. II Messaggero was one of two national newspapers that published propaganda messages from imprisoned Red Brigade leaders -- the main demand made by the kidnappers in exchange for Mr. D'Urso's life.