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...ominous voice delivered the message in identical calls to newspapers in Rome and Milan: U.S. Brigadier General James Dozier, kidnaped from his Verona apartment on Dec. 17, had been executed. The anonymous caller said the corpse of "the Yankee pig General Dozier" could be found in an abandoned building 30 miles from Pescara on the Adriatic coast. Italian police searched the area fruitlessly...
Even as police tramped the hillsides in search of Dozier, the Brigades struck again. A tiny Autobianchi A112 car moved unnoticed through the deserted streets of Rovigo, 40 miles southeast of Verona, and parked next to the walls of the town prison. Four masked men leaped from the car and began spraying machine-gun fire at two guards in a watchtower. In the prison courtyard, four women inmates who were Red Brigades members heard the shots and overpowered a guard. Then the car exploded, killing a pedestrian, shattering windows within a quarter-mile radius and blowing a 4-ft-wide...
...kidnaped U.S. Brigadier General James Dozier. Acting on a tip, scores of officers swarmed over tiny Ponte Alto (pop. 91), searching dozens of 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...
...Italian government, with U.S. support, restated its policy of "inflexible firmness" in refusing to negotiate with the terrorists for the return of Dozier, the deputy chief of staff for logistics and administration at NATO'S southern Europe land forces headquarters in Verona. However, police authorities in Verona offered a substantial reward, reportedly up to $167,000, for valuable information on the case. Moreover, by week's end a group of Dozier's friends had put up a $1.6 million reward for information leading to the general's release...
While the search went on, Dozier's wife Judith received messages of sympathy from both President Reagan and Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Maintaining a vigil at her home in Verona with her two children, Mrs. Dozier appeared for a second time on TV to thank the Italian people for their support. Said she: "Please continue to pray. You are in all our hearts, and we know we are in your hearts...