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...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...
...accused Arab terrorist is sent back to Israel for trial...
...first time that the leftist red Brigades had attacked an American during their eleven-year campaign to destroyItaly's Establishment. Terrorism in Italy peaked in 1978, when 2,395 terrorist attacks were attributed to Italy's left and right including the Brigades' kidnaping and murder of former Prime Minister Aldo Moro. But a police crackdown, aided by the testimony of Brigades and other terrorists turncoats, has led to 1,650 arrests across the ideological spectrum and has reduced the number of terrorist acts to about 900 this year...
...result, the Brigades have been more selective about their targets, aiming at those with the greatest publicity value In September the Brigades' "fall offensive" manifesto warned of a strike against a 'high-ranking NATO-U.S. target." On Sept. 15 a West 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...