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...dramatic raid, Italian commandos free a kidnaped U.S. general...
...Interior Ministry, sensed that they were getting close to Dozier. But ironically, their successes played only a minor role in finally locating him. A major drug bust in Verona last Wednesday seems to have yielded the final link to Dozier's whereabouts. Among those arrested in the raid was Paolo Galati, 22, brother of Michele Galati, who is currently in prison for terrorist acts. Sources said Galati's name had been mentioned by Stefano Petrella after that brigatista's arrest in Rome. Police flew Petrella to Padua to confront Paolo Galati. Somehow, that meeting led police...
Police began moving in on the Via Pindemonte building early Thursday morning. A former plan for a nighttime raid on the apartment was rejected because streets in the partly commercial area would be too quiet then, and Dozier's captors might notice any unusual activity. At about 10 a.m., 28 police and unmarked cars surrounded the area. Half an hour later, members of the special antiterrorist force took up their positions in the street, ready to intervene in case of trouble. Moments later, the truck carrying the ten leatherheads pulled up behind the building, and the raid...
...week came a new, but hardly unexpected, brush stroke: a drastic increase in assistance to the controlling military regime of El Salvador. Drawn, appropriately enough, from the Pentagon's increased revenue, $55 million will go to the Central American country, $25 million ostensibly to replace helicopters destroyed in a raid last week by leftist guerrillas on a military airbase, the rest to fund renewed opposition to that guerrilla insurrection against the nation's coalition of civilian and military rulers. According to Secretary of State Alexander M. Haig Jr., the United States is now committed to insuring that El Salvador will...
...continuing search produced no solid clues to Dozier's whereabouts, but did lead to the discovery of some fascinating details about a Red Brigades plan to attack the congress of the Christian Democratic Party on Jan. 22. Police learned that the Brigades had scheduled the raid for 1:30 p.m., the hour when live television coverage had been due to begin. While about 15 terrorists would throw grenades and spray the delegates with machine-gun fire, according to the plan, one of their comrades was supposed to dash before a TV camera to read a political manifesto...