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...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 used in half a dozen kidnapings during the past three years...
...seen the level of political pressure rise and fall repeatedly throughout the past year and a half, they had realized for several days that the nation might be approaching a crisis. Early last week the government launched a propaganda barrage against Solidarity by broadcasting over the state radio some tape-recorded excerpts from a closed-door meeting of the union's leadership. The excerpts accounted for only about 30 minutes of what had been a twelve-hour discussion, but they tended to portray the leaders as troublesome and uncompromising. Walesa was quoted as having said: "The confrontation is unavoidable...
...fact that somebody had tape-recorded the proceedings of a union meeting was not in itself surprising. Regional leaders, for example, routinely record union debates in order to demonstrate to members back home that their interests have been properly represented. Walesa did not quarrel with the quotes but said his remarks had been "terribly distorted." If anyone was seeking a showdown it was the government, he continued, adding: "We would like to hear their private conversations when they are talking about us secretly." Moreover, union leaders pointed out, the meeting had taken place just after the government had sent police...
...North Philadelphia gym he hauls a stereo tape player from the ring to the heavy bag, keeping time to his music. "Don't no trainer ever have to shout 'time' for me," says Joe proudly. "Don't nobody ever have to tell me how much time has gone...
...hands properly swaddled, he pulls on a pair of cutoff bib overalls that bring back both the sharecropper's son and the slaughterhouse boy, and he picks up the tape player. Out on the gym floor, he throws his first punch at the wall, knocking down a framed quotation by former Heavyweight Champion of the World Gentleman Jim Corbett. Joe does not bend to pick it up or to read the first line...