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THE WASHINGTON POST
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U.S. General
To Be Tried
GENERAL, From A1
No immediate demands have been
made for Dozier’s release.
Despite
a
vast
police
dragnet
throughout much of northern
Italy;
police were unable to find any trace
of the general. They located a blue
Fiat van, rented in Milan, that .they
believe was probably used by a com-
mando unit of as many as 10 terror-
ists in the kidnaping.
The
unidentified
caller
said
the
"kidnaping had been organized by the
“Venetian Column” of the Red Bri-
gades, and
that
branches
of
the
Marxist group from
Milan, Naples
and Rome as well as Venice had par-
ticipated
in
the
kidnaping
of
the
“hangruian.” The
message
gave
no
; indication of why Dozier was called a
.
'“hangman.”
'
!
[Pentagon
sources
said
the
De-
fense Department sent a six-member
team
to Rome
to
serve
as
liaison
with Italian authorities investigating
the kidnaping, but the Defense De-
partment
declined
comment,
The
Associated Press reported.]
Italian Prime
Minister Giovanni
Spadolini said after a meeting this
morning with
his government’s de-
fense and security experts, that the
kidnaping “is certainly a qualitative
jump in the strategy of terrorism.”
Leftist Italian terrorists began op-
erating in Italy 10 years ago, but the
unexpected operation yesterday was
the
first
against
a
military
officer
and the first against a foreigner.
It was also the first time that Ital-
ian
terrorists
moved
against
a
NATO base here and appears to rep-
resent
a
shift
toward
the
anti-
American, anti-NATO
tactics
that,
West Germany’s Red Army faction
terrorists have followed.
Although
spokesmen
at
the
NATO base in Verona said Dozier’s
function as deputy chief of logistics
and administration of the integrated
NATO command was primarily ad-
ministrative,
press
accounts
have
speculated that the terrorists holding
him will seek tp extort secret infor-
mation regarding file deployment of
troops and military supplies in Italy
and Euro;
[Joe
Favorite,
a NATO
spokes-
man, said, such a iqotive would be
JUDITH DOZIER
.
.
. appeared on television
more plausible if the victim were in
operations,
intelligence
or commu-
nications, AP reported.]
Most
of
the
Italians who
have
been kidnaped by the Red Brigades
so
'
far — judges,
politicians
and
business, executives — are
said
to
have “cooperated,” writing frequent
letters
to
government
authorities,
possibly under dictation.
One executive who police believe
did
not
cooperate,
petrochemical
plant manager
Giuseppe
Taliercio,
' was
killed
early
last summer. But
cooperation also does not ensure sur-
vival, as became evident when
for-
mer prime minister Aldo Moro was
slain after writing scores of letters to
political friends and foes during his
54 days of captivity in 1978.
Furthermore, although it is far too
early to
tell what,
if any demands
the
terrorists
might make
for
the
release of the
general, an embassy|
spokesman today said that
in pre
vious occasions in other parts of the
world the United States has said
it
will not negotiate with terrorists.
Judith Dozier, the general’s
wife,!
appeared briefly on Italian national]
television.
One
of
her
cheeks
was
badly
bruised. But she seemed calm and
spoke in a steady voice in English to
reassure friends and relatives.
“Mom and Dad, please stay calm,’
she said. “I just want to let all our
friends
in
the United States know
that! am fine."
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