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Police with submachine guns ringed Verona's 12th century Palazzo della Ragione while helicopters whirred overhead and sharpshooters kept a vigil from nearby rooftops. Inside, seven of the 16 Red Brigades terrorists accused of kidnaping U.S. Brigadier General James L. Dozier awaited the first day of their trial in two adjoining steel cages. In one were the duri (hard-liners), who have stubbornly maintained their silence during interrogation. In the other, for their own protection as much as anything else, were the pentiti (repentant ones), whose surprising willingness to betray their comrades has given Italian authorities reason to believe...
...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...
...first major break came on Jan. 4, just 18 days after Dozier's kidnaping, when police picked up two suspected terrorists near Rome's Spanish Steps. The arrests led to raids on apartments that yielded documents containing a gold mine of information on hideouts, action plans, weapons caches-and other gang members. In all, more than 375 suspected left-wing terrorists have been arrested over the past two months...
BERKELEY-An ultra-conservative political group has asked the state attorney general and the Alameda County District Attorney's office to investigate its claim that international terrorism-including the recent kidnapping of Brig. Gen. James Dozier in Italy-can be linked to "radical networks" centered at the University of California at Berkeley...
...committee's report charges that Giovanni Senzani, a purported Red Brigade terrorist whom Italian police have linked to the Dozier kidnapping, is being investigated for possible membership in terrorist networks associated with the Berkeley sociology and criminology departments...