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...last Thursday, an unmarked van carrying ten special agents of Italy's Central Operative Security Nucleus, a tough antiterrorist squad known colloquially as the "leatherheads" for the tight-fitting leather hoods worn during special operations, pulled up behind a modern eight-story apartment building in Padua. Police had quietly cordoned off the Via Pindemonte, the normally busy street out front, and shoppers in the supermarket on the ground floor were startled to find themselves locked inside for their own safety. Then the commandos rushed inside the building, carrying machine guns and dressed in blue jeans, bulletproof vests and masks...
...been abducted on Dec. 17 from his Verona apartment by Red Brigades members disguised as plumbers, seemed to be in a condition that was one part shock and two parts euphoria immediately after he was rescued. That was understandable. For six weeks he had been held hostage in the Padua apartment, apparently never leaving. He was often blindfolded, and his ears were stuffed with wax to ensure that he would be unable to identify his surroundings...
...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 arrested at gunpoint and held for interrogation, though any connection with the abduction of the American general was not revealed...
...least 1,200 carabinieri established 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...
...Autonomisti groups. Nine of the 22 were charged with involvement in the Moro case. The prize catch appeared to be one of the Autonomisti's leading theoreticians, Antonio Negri, 45. He is a soft-spoken political scientist who teaches at both Italy's University of Padua and Paris' Ecole Normale Superieure and has sympathized with violence for the sake of proletarian revolution. Accused of practicing what he preaches, as both a secret organizer of the Red Brigades and a figure in the Moro atrocity, he was taken to Rome for interrogation...