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...least 1,200 carabinieri established roadblocks in the region around Verona. Hundreds of others fanned out through the Northern Italian cities of Padua, Bolzano and Mestre, looking for clues and searching abandoned houses. Meanwhile, six antiterrorist experts from the U.S. Defense Department rushed to the scene. Yet by week's end the biggest manhunt since the 1978 assassination of former Italian Prime Minister Aldo Moro had come up empty. There was still no hint of the whereabouts of Brigadier General James Dozier, 50, the U.S. Army officer held by Italy's terrorist Red Brigades...
...terrorists made it clear what they hoped to gain by kidnaping the highest-ranking American official at the Verona headquarters of NATO'S Southern Europe land forces. In the past, the Red Brigades' targets have always been Italians. The only apparently authentic message from the terrorist group was a note labeled "Communique No. 1," found in a downtown Rome trash can after police were directed there by an anonymous phone call. The message made no ransom demands but merely stated that on Dec. 17 an "armed nucleus" of Red Brigades "had captured and placed in a people...
Dozier, 50, is the highest-ranking American Army officer at NATO'S Southern Europe land forces headquarters in Verona, with the title of Deputy Chief of Staff for Logistics and Administration Four men dressed as plumbers knocked on his apartment door, clubbed him over the head and carried him off after binding his wife Judith, 47, with chains and tape. By the time her frantic banging against floors and walls aroused neighbors, the kidnapers had a four-hour lead. By week's end police had found no trace of Dozier. Indeed, they have found none of the hideouts...
...German terrorist unit near Heidelberg ambushed an automobile carrying General Frederick Kroesen commander of U.S. Army forces in Europe. Kroesen escaped with only minor injuries, but U.S. generals in Europe were advised to safeguard themselves. Little was done. Dozier went on living in his top-floor apartment in downtown Verona-the city of blood feuds and doomed love in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet-in a building without a doorman or even a resident superintendent...
...Gentlemen of Verona...