Banner Graphic, Volume 12, Number 91, Greencastle, Putnam County, 23 December 1981 — Page 2

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Struggle at door is fatal GREENWOOD. Ind. (AP) - An Italian immigrant police said "didn't seem to be afraid of anything was wounded fatally in a struggle with assailants at the door of his apartment, police said. Armando Rossi, 25, died Tuesday hours after he was shot in the head with a large-caliber handgun by one of two men who had been waiting for the victim and his two roommates, also Italian immigrants, to return to their apartment. Police said friends and coworkers of the victim said he came to the United States a year ago from Sicily and was a hard-working cook in a pizza parlor. Investigators said he was carrying $2,000 in cash when attacked, but the money was not taken. Emerging from a storage closet as the three men approached, the attackers pulled ski masks over their faces and orderd the trio into their second-floor apartment, according to police. One intruder carried a .44 or .41 Magnum revolver and the other an automatic weapon, possibly a rifle. Rossi, turned on the gunmen, grabbed the barrels of both guns and shouted at his roommates for help. One joined in the struggle, and the other dashed into the apartment slamming the door behind him, police said. After Rossi was shot, the roommate assisting him ran down a hallway, banging on doors and screaming for help. The assailants fled. Greenwood Police Chief Larry D. Wood said the armed pair did not mention robbery or holdup but shouted obscenities at the Italians. “They were definitely waiting for those people. There’s no doubt in my mind,” Wood said. “It looks like either an armed robbery or an assassination.” Composite sketches of the assailants were obtained by police from Rossi’s roommates. Authorities said Rossi was known to revel in dangerous situations and would not back way from a confrontation. Police said his quest for danger probably contributed to his death.

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Mrs. Judith Dozier, right, wife of kidnapped American Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier, holds hands with her daughter, Cheryl, during a news conference in

Call about Dozier probably a hoax, Italian police say

ROME (AP) said a telephone call claiming kidnapped U.S. Brig. Gen. James L. Dozier’s body was probably a hoax, possibly an attempt by the Red Brigades to heighten tension over his disappearance. On Tuesday, the Beirut office of the Italian news agency ANSA received an anonymous phone call from someone who said Dozier’s body would be found in an Italian village Tuesday night. Italian police, who have reported no clues in Dozier’s disappearance, said they took the call seriously at first, but as the night passed, they began to suspect it was a hoax. “We don’t believe the call,” said an Italian police official who asked not to be identified. “It’s probable that they’re doing this to distract the police.” Dozier, 50, the highestranking American at NATO headquarters in the northern Italian city of Verona, was kid-

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Verona, Italy. Mrs. Dozier appealed to Red Brigade terrorists’for the return of her husband. Dozier was kidnapped from his home last Thursday. (AP Laserphoto)

napped from his home on Thursday by armed men posing as plumbers. His wife, Judith, was bound and gagged. The kidnappers have listed no demands, but have said he will be tried by the Red Brigades. Italian and American officials said they would not negotiate with the terrorists if demands were made. “The Red Brigades claim the responsibility for the sentencing to death and the execution of the American general James Dozier, found guilty by a people’s tribunal,” the Beirut caller, speaking in Arabic, told ANSA. He said he was speaking on behalf of the “Red Brigades of BaaderMeinhof.”

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Baader-Meinhof is a West German guerrilla group that some prosecutors suspect has ties to the Red Brigades. “There is no need to call the American CIA for help in trying to liberate the imperialist American pig,” the caller said. “The body of the American pig will be found in a village in the countryside and the police will find it soon after 2000 hours (8 p.m.) Italian time.” ANSA said the caller did not make clear whether Dozier already had been killed. The Red Brigades in the past have issued statements saying a kidnap victim was killed, and then retracted them and said the victim was still alive.

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BOISE, Idaho (AP) U.S. District Judge Marion Callister ruled today that Congress violated its authority by extending the deadline to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. In a second major blow to ERA advocates, Callister wrote that Idaho, Tennessee, Kentucky, South Dakota and Nebraska effectively nullified their prior ratification of the proposed constitutional amendment and may not be counted as ratifying states. He said the same would be true for any other states which properly certified their actions of rescission to the General Services Administration. The ruling came on a suit that had been filed by Idaho and Arizona two years ago. Eleanor Smeal, president of the National Organizatio for Women, had said in advance of the ruling that it was a “political case on the life or death of the amendment.” The proposed amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which would ban discrimination based on sex, requires approval by 38

Thousands still resisting military

Priests visit Polish strikers

By The Associated Press Poland said priests and soldiers entered coal shafts to try to talk 3,000 mineworkers into abandoning a prolonged strike, and four detainees who had been released were rearrested for “actions against martial law.” The state-run Warsaw Radio said most Poles were obeying martial law. But reports from outside Poland on Tuesday indicated thousands of Poles were resisting the crackdown in several regions, hundreds of prisoners were being mistreated and Solidarity union leader Lech Walesa was on a hunger strike. The reports could not be independently confirmed. All news communications facilities in Poland have been cut and severe restrictions placed on Western reporters there. Uncensored news reports from within Poland are few and Western news agencies piece together information from travelers, diplomatic sources and others. Reliable reports from Poland that bypassed military censors said Premier Gen. Wojciech Jaruzelski was preparing his first televised message since announcing the state of emergency Dec. 13, possibly as

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President's address scheduled at 9 p.m. WASHINGTON (AP) President Reagan, preparing to address the nation tonight on the situation in Poland, is weighing “an array of political, diplomatic, security and economic measures” the United States might take against the Warsaw government and the Soviet Union. Reagan planned to confer with his national security advisers today the third meeting in three days before making an address from the Oval Office at 9 p.m. EST. White House counselor Edwin Meese 111 indicated that options being considered included steps against the Soviet Union. “I would say we are looking at every possible step that needs to be taken either in relation to the Polish regime or in relation to the Soviet Union to prevent the situation from getting worse, and hopefully to work for improvements as far as the Polish people are concerned,” Meese said Tuesday. Meese and other administration officials would not discuss the options or say whether Reagan actually would announce any U.S. action. “It may just be a toughening of the rhetoric,” one official said privately.

early as today. Warsaw Radio also reported that four people freed earlier were “re-arrested after they engaged in actions against martial law.” The broadcast did not state the nature of their activities. Nor did it say if the four were among the nine Polish intellectuals freed Tuesday in what the government called “an example” of “many more” releases to come.

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states. No state has ratified it since Indiana became the 35th to do so in 1977. Callister said Congress exceeded its authority in voting in 1978 to move back the deadline for ratification from March 29,1979? to June 30,1982. Opponents say the amendment has the potential of upsetting traditional family relationships and the role of women by, forexample, making women eligible for military draft. Lawyers for the government and NOW have said Congress has absolute authority over amendment processes. NOW lost an appeal before the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of peals in San Francisco to have Callister disqualified. NOW sakfr Callister’s former position as a high-ranking official in the Mor-» mon Church is a conflict of interest. The Mormon Church strongly opposes the ERA, and has cam-j paigned against it in Idaho and elsewhere. Callister, who took the case under advisement May 14, said he* could separate legal issues from his personal and religious* views.

The radio also said the Communist government eased travel restrictions imposed Dec. 13, shortened the nightly curfew and would suspend it on Christmas Eve to allow Poles to attend midnight Mass. More than 90 percent of Poland’s population of 36 million is Roman Catholic. The broadcasts, monitored in London, said 3,000 holdout strikers in two Silesian coal mines refused to come out, and that Roman Catholic priests agreed to go in with military representatives to negotiate. Also in London, the Daily Telegraph newspaper quoted Polish exiles as saying prisoners were suffering gangrene and frostbite in outdoor detention camps and that' all jails were full. Government spokesman Jerzy Urban said Monday that 5,000 Poles have been arrested since Dec. 13. In Bonn, a member of Solidarity’s national commission who was outside Poland when martial law was announced said 70,000 people were arrested, many put in freezing camps. He did not

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say how he got the information. The British Broadcasting Corp. quoted sources as saying 8,000 steelworkers were holding the large Katowice steel mill, the city of Radom was ringed by troops and protesters in Gdansk were beaten by soldiers with clubs. “There’s quite a lot of people been killed I can assure you,” the BBC quoted a businessman traveling from Poland who arrived in Helsinki. The agency said he was carrying messages between Solidarity activists ajid the British Trade Union Council but did not further identify hirti. Poland says seven people have been killed in clashes since martial law was declared. Reports from outside Poland say as many as 200 people have died. The BBC also quoted the businessman as saying Walesa has been on a hunger strike since Saturday to protest the crackdown. Walesa is reportedly being held in Warsaw army headquarters. The businessman said he knew about Walesa “because the secretary of (Solidarity’s) Internal Affairs was in my home an hour before I wa? to leave.” Polish Monsignor Bronislaw Dabrowski, briefing Pope John Paul II on developments in the pontiff’s homeland, was quoted as saying Walesa was in good health but still under arrest Dabrowski was quoted by a Polish exile in Switzerland who talked with him via telephone! Reliable reports from inside Poland said soldiers still patrolled streets in the capital but that the military had reduced its presence. To the north in Gdansk, where the Solidarity movement was founded in August 1980, the reports quoted travelers as saying huhdreds of workers were barricaded inside oil refineries: surrounded by tanks arid soldiers.

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