Word: italianize
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...discoveries astounded Italian police. Documents seized on Jan. 9 in raids on three Red Brigades hideouts in Rome revealed a frightening agenda for terror: a rocket assault on Christian Democratic Party headquarters, the assassination of a leading Roman judge, the kidnaping of a Fiat executive, bomb attacks on police stations and a mass breakout by jailed left-wing terrorists. Amid the weaponry confiscated in the raids were three Soviet-made antitank grenades with launchers, two French-made air-to-ground missiles and a collection of small arms and plastic explosives...
...police operation was one of the most effective blows against Italian terrorism since it first raised its head a decade ago. The authorities also stumbled upon a possible link with the abduction by brigatisti of U.S. Brigadier General James Dozier in Verona on Dec. 17. Even as police were still sifting through the newly discovered evidence, a Brigades courier turned up at one of the raided apartments to deliver a message to Giovanni Senzani, 39, a Brigades mastermind, who had been arrested during the swoop. The note requested Senzani's advice on how to handle the Dozier kidnaping. Investigators...
Despite the fresh discoveries about the Brigades, there were no signs last week that the authorities were closing in on Dozier's captors. Thousands of police searched Verona; indeed, the Italian government claimed that it had mobilized more forces in the Dozier manhunt than in the Moro case. Still, the security forces were hampered by a lack of coordination among different police and security services that were decentralized after World War II to thwart the chances of a power seizure in the style of Benito Mussolini. Says an American official: "The lessons of fascism have required the system...
...large intestine to let the damaged lower part heal. The bowel was to be reconnected in a second operation in June. But John Paul developed a serious viral infection, and was too weak to undergo the needed surgery. The stalemate dragged on until late July, when his nine Italian physicians met to decide what...
...solid clues to go on, the authorities were hoping to break the case by enticing one of the terrorists to betray his comrades and earn a 2 billion lire ($1.67 million) reward for information about the kidnaping. The money is believed to have been put up either by wealthy Italian industrialists, who fear that terrorism is eroding business confidence, or anonymously by the Italian government...