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...Brigades talk, their terrorist network begins to unravel...
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...
Savasta confirmed reports that the Red Brigades had developed ties to other terrorist groups, including the Palestine Liberation Organization and West Germany's Red Army Faction. He also provided a fascinating, if as yet inconclusive, link between the Red Brigades and the Soviet bloc. In prison depositions, he claimed that the Red Brigades had been in contact with the Bulgarian embassy in Rome. One of the supposed intermediaries was Luigi Scricciolo, 35, an official of the Unione Italiana del Lavoro, one of Italy's largest trade union federations, and an alleged Red Brigades undercover agent. After Dozier...
Italian authorities are also heartened that the number of terrorist acts has dropped sharply since the beginning of this year. Still, no one is taking any chances. As Dozier returned to his desk at the headquarters of NATO'S Southern Europe land forces in Verona last week, he admitted that he had "learned his lesson" and promised to take adequate precautions for his safety...