Word: italianize
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...trip through Europe to drum up support for the sanctions, the Europeans are opposed to punishing the Soviet Union unless it openly intervenes in Poland. At the heart of the allied opposition is the belief that sanctions, no matter how well meaning, do not work. As one Italian politician noted cynically, "Carter adopted sanctions against the Soviets to get them out of Afghanistan. They still are in Afghanistan." Said a British trade official: "Trade is a very difficult sanction to apply; like water, it will always find a way through." The best the U.S. may be able to expect from...
Wearing bulletproof vests and carrying machine guns, a 2,000-man Italian force combed northern Italy last week as the massive manhunt continued for kidnaped U.S. Brigadier General James Dozier. Acting on a tip, scores of officers swarmed over tiny Ponte Alto (pop. 91), searching dozens of houses and stopping cars on snowy roads, but they found no trace of the 50-year-old Army general who was abducted from his apartment in Verona on Dec. 17. The Italian government sent hundreds of reinforcements and alpine troops to join the search. At a roadblock near Padua, four suspected terrorists were...
...Italian government, with U.S. support, restated its policy of "inflexible firmness" in refusing to negotiate with the terrorists for the return of Dozier, the deputy chief of staff for logistics and administration at NATO'S southern Europe land forces headquarters in Verona. However, police authorities in Verona offered a substantial reward, reportedly up to $167,000, for valuable information on the case. Moreover, by week's end a group of Dozier's friends had put up a $1.6 million reward for information leading to the general's release...
...midweek Italian police arrested Pasqua Aurora Belli, 34, a former schoolteacher, and Flavio Amico, 26, a printer, as suspects in the Dozier kidnaping, but their exact role in the crime was not clear. Meanwhile, police were kept busy with a number of spurious tips, including a telephone message to the Beirut office of the Italian news agency ANSA. The caller, speaking in Arabic, claimed that Dozier had been executed and that his body could be found in a small but unnamed Italian village. Police found nothing, and the message was considered to be a hoax...
...Italian officials last week agreed that neither country would negotiate with the terrorists. At the same time, NATO headquarters in Brussels issued a statement saying that the Red Brigades had made a serious error if they expected to extract military secrets from Dozier. The general was described as being a specialist only in logistics and support activity, not in defense plans for the alliance...