Italian police free kidnapped general
NZPA-Reuter Rome The Italian police freed the kidnapped United States Army brigadier-general, James Dozier, late last even-, ing (New Zealand time), the Ansa news agency reports. He was freed in Padua, the northern city between Verona and Venice, Ansa said, adding that five terrorists were arrested in the police raid of the Red Brigades’ “people’s prison.” General Dozier, aged 50, was snatched from his apartment in the northern city of
Verona on December 17 by Red Brigades terrorists posing as plumbers. He is the highest-ranking American military official at the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation base at Verona. The police said a special anti-terrorist squad burst into the apartment where guerrillas were holding the general.
Lieutenant-Colonel Luciano Dalceggio, a N.A.T.O. spokesman at Verona, said: “We have talked to General Dozier and he is well.”
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