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 No                              
 immediate                              
 demands                              
 have                              
 been                              
                                 

 .made                              
 for                              
 Dozier's                              
 release.                              
                                 

 Despite                              
 a                               
 vast                              
 police                              
 dragnet                              
                                 

 throughout                              
 much                              
 of                              
 northern                              
 Italy,                              
                                 

 police                              
 were                              
 unable                              
 to                              
 fmd                              
 any                              
 trace                              
                                 

 the                              
 general.                              
 They                              
 located                              
 a                               
 blue                              
                                 

 Fiat                              
 van,                              
 rented                              
 in                              
 Milan,                              
 thatthey                              
                                 

 believe                       "':1-1-1-1-1.....
 was                       . ......
 probably                       . .1-1-1-1-1
 used                              
 by                              
 a                               
 com-                              
                                 

 mando                              
 unit                              
 of                              
 as                              
 many                              
 as                              
 10                              
 terror-                              
                                 

 i8ts            g.                
 in                              
 the                              
 kidnapin                              
                                 

 The            caller said       
 unidentified            the               
                                 

 lidnaping                              
 had                              
 been                              
 organized                              
 by                              
 the                              
                                 

 ,"Venetian                              
 Column"                              
 of                              
 the                              
 Red                              
 Bri-                              
                                 

 igades,                              
 and,                              
 that                              
 branches                              
 of                              
 the                              
                                 

 ~Marxist                              
 group                              
 from                              
 Milan,                              
 Naples                              
                                 

 "and                       JUDITH 
 Rome                       DOZIER 
 as                              
 well                              
 as                              
 Venice                              
 had                              
 par-                              
                                 

 ,ticipated                       ...    
 in                       appeared
 the                       on     
 kidnaping                       television
 of                              
 the                              
 '                               
                                 

 "hangman."                              
 The                       more   
 message.L                       plausible
 gave                       if     
 no                       the    
 indicitfon                       victim 
 of                       were   
 why                       in     
 Dozier                              
 was                              
 called                              
 a.                              
                                 

 :"hangin.an."                       operations,
                          inteffigence
                          or     
                          commu- 
                                 

 [Pentagon                       nications,
 sources                       AP     
 said                       reported.]
 the                              
 De-                              
                                 

 fense                       Most.  
 Department                       of     
 sent                       the    
 a                        Italians
 six-member                       who    
                          have   
                                 

 team                       been   
 to                       kidnaped
 Rome                       by     
 to                       the-Red
 serve                       Brigades
 as                              
 liaison                              
 -                               
                                 

 with                       so'    
 Italian                       far    
 authorities                       -judges,
 investigating                       politicians
                          and    
                                 

 the                       business'executives----:
 kidnaping,                       are    
 but                       said   
 the                       to     
 Defense                              
 De-                              
                                 

 partment                       have   
 declined                       "c6o"perated,"
 comment,                       writing
 The                       frequent
                                 

 Associated                       lettersgovernment
 Press                       to     authorities,
 reported.]                              
                                 

 Italian                       possiblyer dictation.
 Prime                       und    
 Minister                              
 Giovanni                              
                                 

 Spadolihi                       One    
 said                       executive
 after                       who,   
 a                        police 
 meeting                       believe
 this                              
                                 

 morning                       did    
 with                       not    
 his                       cooperate,
 government's                       petrochemical
 de-                              
                                 

 fense                       Dlant  
 and                       Manager
 security                       Giuseppe
 experts,                       Taliercio,
 that                              
 the                              
                                 

 kidnaping                       6s killed
 "is                       early  
 certainly                       last   
 a                        summer.
 qualitative                       But    
                                 

 jump                       cooperation
 in                       also   
 the                       does   
 strategy                       not    
 of                       ensure 
 terrorism."                       sur-   
                                 

 Leftist                       vival, 
 Italian                       as     
 terrorists                       became 
 began                       evident
 op-                       when   
                          for-   
                                 

 erating                       mer    
 in                       prime  
 Italy                       minister.Aldo
 10                       Moro   
 years                       was    
 ago,                              
 but                              
 the                              
                                 

 unexpected                       slain  
 operation                       after  
 yesterday                       writing
 was                       scores 
                          of     
                          letters
                          to     
                                 

   the first              political
   against                friends
   a military             and    
   officer                foes   
                          during 
                          his    
                                 

   and the first           54 days
   against                of     
   a foreigner.           captivityin
                          1978.  
                                 

   It was also            Furthermore,
   the first              although
   time that              it     
   Ital-                  is     
                          far    
                          too    
                                 

   ian terrorists           early  
   moved against           to     
   a                      tell   
                          what,  
                          if     
                          any    
                          demands
                                 

   NATO base              the    
   here and               terrorists
   appears                might  
   to rep-                make   
                          for    
                          the    
                                 

   resent a               release
   shift toward           of     
   the anti-              the    
   inti-NATO              general,
   tactics                an     
   that                   embassy
   American                      
                                 

   ,                      spokesman
   ,                      today  
   West Germany's           said   
   Red Army               that   
   faction                in     
                          pre-   
                                 

                          viou8  
   terrorists             occasions
   have followed           in     
                          other  
                          parts  
                          of     
                          the    
                                 

   .                             
   Although               world  
   spokesmen              the    
   at the                 United 
                          States 
                          has    
                          said   
                          it     
                                 

   NATO base              will   
   in Verona              not    
   said. Dozier's           negotiate
                          with   
                          terrorists..
                          'Judith
                          Dozier,
                          the    
                          general's
                          wife,  
                                 

 
function as deputy chief of logistics
 and administration of the integrated appeared briefly on Italian national
 NATO command was primarily ad- television.
 ministrative,- press, accounts have One. of her cheeks. was' badly
 speculated that the terrorists holding bruised. But she seemed calm and
 him will se6k to extort secret infor. spoke in a steady voice in English to
 Mation regarding the ~ deployment of reassure friends and relatives.
 troops and Military 84 "mom and Dad, please stay calm,"
 ~supplies in It y
 and Eu'ropp. she said. "I just want to let all our
 [Joe Favorit% a NATO spokes-- friends in the United States know
 man, said, s6ch a Motive would be that-I am fine.
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