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Minnesotans enjoyed a short respite midweek, but raw weather returned on Thursday, when St. Cloud's -30° set a city record for the date, and a steady snowfall covered the state. Earlier, in rural southern Minnesota, Karlie Sazama, 17, spent a long night in a car with her boyfriend Robert Schaaf, 19. But this was no teen-age frolic: the couple was stuck for 16 hours in drifting roadside snow. Said Schaaf of their survival: "We tore seat covers off the front seat and wrapped them around our heads and snuggled together...
...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...
...midweek the presence of troops in the capital had increased appreciably. There was more of everything: patrols, soldiers with fixed bayonets, armored cars and a few tanks. I spotted a Soviet patrol car and several uniformed Soviet soldiers casually strolling in the center of the city. One man told me he had seen about 30 high-ranking Russian officers leaving a Soviet Air Force plane at Warsaw airport...
...midweek Walesa met in Warsaw with Poland's Roman Catholic Primate, Archbishop Jozef Glemp, who was attempting to mediate between the government and Solidarity. Glemp had already spoken out against the government's bill seeking broader emergency powers, saying that it could "disturb the internal peace and cause a grave social conflict." Following his talk with Walesa, there were rumors that the two might meet with Jaruzelski. But such a meeting was not arranged, and Walesa returned to Gdansk. For his efforts at peacemaking, the Archbishop received a blast from Moscow, which accused the Polish Catholic Church...
Jerusalem's reaction was prompt and predictable. At midweek, Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin told U.S. Ambassador Samuel Lewis that he would ask his Cabinet to reject the participation of the Europeans as long as they supported a P.L.O. peace role. The 68-year-old Prime Minister's resolve was in no way weakened the next day when a fall in his home hospitalized him with a broken left thigh. It was expected that the Cabinet meeting discussing the subject would be held at his bedside in Jerusalem's Hadassah Hospital...