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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...
...roadblocks in the region around Verona. Hundreds of others fanned out through the Northern Italian cities of Padua, Bolzano and Mestre, looking for clues and searching abandoned houses. Meanwhile, six antiterrorist experts from the U.S. Defense Department rushed to the scene. Yet by week's end the biggest manhunt since the 1978 assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro had come up empty. There was still no hint of the whereabouts of Brigadier General James Dozier, 50, the U.S. Army officer held by Italy's terrorist Red Brigades...
...impressive literacy effort, for example. And there seems a readiness to defend the revolution. When counterrevolutionaries (a particularly simpering, cowardly band of counterrevolutionaries) sneak across the border to murder one literacy brigadista, hundreds of men from the People's Militia volunteer to join the army in the eventually successful manhunt. Nicaraguans may not one and all love their new government, but there seem to be very few who are eager to return to anything like Somoza's rule...
...basement of his Staten Island home. Using a nationwide network of law-enforcement contacts, he plotted Abbott's moves on a map of the U.S. Majeski's reading runs from works on psychology to Sherlock Holmes, and it served him well in his remote-control manhunt. So did In the Belly of the Beast. "All the clues to what he is, how he thinks, what he would do were in the book...
...plodding and routine as most police work-or as a police novel unredeemed by narrative surprises or a galvanic prose style. The plot doubles back on itself and wanders off on pointless tangents. A subplot involving Delaney's critically ill wife (Faye Dunaway) is never integrated into the manhunt story, and Dunaway is wasted in a role that keeps her flat on her back. Mostly, she is forgotten as the gumshoe and the hobnail boots approach each other for the climactic confrontation. But Delaney is never in real danger: when Blank is finally cornered, he starts...