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...Brigadier General James Dozier in Verona on Dec. 17. Even as police were still sifting through the newly discovered evidence, a Brigades courier turned up at one of the raided apartments to deliver a message to Giovanni Senzani, 39, a Brigades mastermind, who had been arrested during the swoop. The note requested Senzani's advice on how to handle the Dozier kidnaping. Investigators concluded that the letter came from Dozier's captors and hoped to trace the courier's trail back to their hideaway...
...Riot police swoop down on Warsaw firefighters school and end an eight-day sit-in by 320 cadets demanding academic reforms...
...flexibility, one top official observes that "there is nothing to prevent us, in the future, from revising our objectives." For example, the U.S. might be willing to phase in the reductions-or as a senior State Department official puts it, "to reach zero without doing so in one fell swoop...
...undoubtedly can be done. And while none of the group that troops out--forgetting, for laughter, to rub its collective strained neck--will go home and discuss the finer points of drama, few will escape without the four-year-old gleam in the eye that comes from one last swoop on the ferris wheel...
...separate-but-equal," says William Taylor, director of the Washington-based Center for National Policy Review. "That kind of rhetoric is gross hypocrisy from an Administration that is cutting school expenditures to the bone." Adds Democratic Senator Howard Metzenbaum of Ohio: "It's pitiful. Suddenly in one fell swoop this Administration turns the clock back on civil rights...