Word: verona
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Indeed it was. Dozier, who had 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...
...Dozier, deputy chief of staff for logistics and administration and the highest ranking U.S. officer at NATO's Southern Europe land forces headquarters in Verona, recovered with remarkable speed. At Padua police headquarters, the Florida-born career soldier insisted, "I'm fine," and called his wife Judith in Frankfurt, where she was visiting her daughter Cheryl, 24, an Air Force second lieutenant. Then he called his boss, Admiral William J. Crowe, commander of NATO'S Southern Region. Speaking by telephone to U.S. Ambassador Maxwell Rabb in Rome, Dozier recounted the final seconds before he was freed. Said...
...national police, in conjunction with local anti-terrorist task forces and the 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...
...police operation was one of the most effective blows against Italian terrorism since it first raised its head a decade ago. The authorities also stumbled upon a possible link with the abduction by brigatisti of U.S. 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...
Despite the fresh discoveries about the Brigades, there were no signs last week that the authorities were closing in on Dozier's captors. Thousands of police searched Verona; indeed, the Italian government claimed that it had mobilized more forces in the Dozier manhunt than in the Moro case. Still, the security forces were hampered by a lack of coordination among different police and security services that were decentralized after World War II to thwart the chances of a power seizure in the style of Benito Mussolini. Says an American official: "The lessons of fascism have required the system...