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...prize catch is Antonio Savasta, 26, leader of the unit that abducted Dozier and a participant in 17 terrorist murders. Short, stern-faced, and clean-shaven since his Jan. 28 arrest in the Padua apartment in which Dozier was held prisoner, Savasta has fingered dozens of fellow brigatisti. He has also signed an open letter to Red Brigades members still at large, urging them to abandon their armed struggle. The message was underscored by a similar plea from the Brigades' reputed mastermind, Enrico Fenzi, 43, a onetime professor of Italian literature at the University of Genoa who was arrested...
...Savasta confirmed reports that the Red Brigades had developed ties to other terrorist groups, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and West Germany's Red Army Faction. He also provided a fascinating, if as yet inconclusive, link between the Red Brigades and the Soviet bloc. In prison depositions, he claimed that the Red Brigades had been in contact with the Bulgarian embassy in Rome. One of the supposed intermediaries was Luigi Scricciolo, 35, an official of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro, one of Italy's largest trade union federations, and an alleged Red Brigades undercover agent. After Dozier...
...room on the right they found the leader of the terrorist cell, Antonio Savasta, 27, standing next to a pup tent pitched in the middle of the room. Inside the tent, chained to a cot, was a shoeless, bearded man in a dark blue jogging suit. Savasta was holding a silencer-equipped pistol to the man's head. Before Savasta could pull the trigger, however, a commando hit him from behind with the butt of his machine gun and knocked him to the floor...
...rest of the squad continued to the rear of the five-room apartment, where they found the three remaining terrorists: Frascella, Savasta's girlfriend Emilia Libera, 26, and Cesare di Lenardo, 22. The three put their hands up immediately. Not a shot had been fired. From the moment the leatherheads first entered the building, barely 90 seconds had elapsed...
Four of the five terrorists arrested were taken to an undisclosed location. Ciucci was rushed to a nearby hospital in serious condition after sustaining the karate blow in the hallway. All but Ciucci and Frascella, whose father is a respected Padua doctor, were well known to antiterrorist specialists. Indeed, Savasta and Libera were recently convicted in a Cagliari court and sentenced to prison in absentia for several bank robberies and their involvement in a 1980 Shootout with police. In the apartment, police found large numbers of Red Brigades documents and the two slogan-filled posters that Dozier was forced...
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