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...evening of Dec. 17, 1981, Red Brigades terrorists kidnaped Brigadier General James Dozier, 50, the highest-ranking U.S. officer in NATO's southern Europe command, from his home in Verona. The abduction triggered the largest man hunt in Italy's history. Forty-two days later, Italian commandos stormed an apartment in Padua and freed the American general. It was a stunning piece of police work that won praise from around the world; it also marked the beginning of the end for the notorious terrorist group. But the full story of how the authorities found Dozier has never been...
Competing carmakers fear that the arrangement will make GM and Toyota even tougher to beat. GM, the world's largest car manufacturer, already commands about 44% of the U.S. market. Toyota, the third biggest automaker (after Ford), has a 6.6% U.S. market share, less han Chrysler (10%) but more than American Motors...
Last Monday, State Banking Commissioner William Adams shut down Butcher's flagship, the United American Bank of Knoxville, citing "large and un usual loan losses" at the $760 million institution. It was the fourth largest U.S. commercial bank failure since the 1930s. By the time U.A.B. opened again on Tuesday morning, it had been taken over by the state's largest bank holding company, First Tennessee National Corp. (assets: $4.2 billion...
...school's activity in this area is a unique research program for women's studies in religion, the largest such effort in the country, and, administrators say. Harvard's only full-scale women's studies program...
Radcliffe has received more than $1 million, one of the largest gifts in the college's history, to establish a scholarship fund for women undergraduates, Radcliffe officials announced last week...