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        )VASHINGTON, 22S.Z - Brig. Gen. 'Were
        -James L. Dozier, a-UMe-d States Army
        :staff officer,. was abducted today in
        Mprona, Italy, a Pentagon spokesman
        ~d4closed tonight.
             :rhe Red Brfgades, the leftist guerrllla
        grOUp, took responsibility for the kid-
        neoping In a telephone call to. the, Italian
        news agency ANSA.
        spokesman, Col. Ron-
        ibe Pentagon
        Pld A. Duchin, said that an unknown
        number of men broke Into General Do-
        kier's apartment at 5:30 P.M. Italian
        Pme (11:30 A.M. Now York time), tied
        Op'~ds wife, Judith, and bodily carried
        General Dozier away.
             phone call to tile Milan Office Of
        ~LNSA said: "We have kidnapped Briga-
        dier General James DozierAn Verona. A
             nuniqu6 will follow.01 I
        ~10ITe general is the first American kid-
        iappad by the Red Brigades, although
                  group has abducted several Italian
             including former Prime Minis
             terAldo Moro, who was killed in 1978. 
             Served in NATO Command
                  The Pentagon spokesman said Gen
             eral Dozier, who is 50 years old and from
             dia, Fla., is deputy chief of staff for
             logistics and administration at the
             Ve;%,= head uarters for allied land
             C? Europe. That com
             t iero
        omd is part of the North Atlantic
        Tr4*ty Organization.
        4ccording to police sources in Verona
             quoedZ The Associated Press, there
        f assailants carV=w~ and
        a scuffle took place du the
        generalwashurt. . I
             The police sources said the general
        had been placed inside a trunk and
        loaded into a vehicle, which sped away.
             Before his assignment in Italy, Gen-
        eral Dozier was a student at the Defense
        Language Institute, where he studied 1
        lua ,tan.
             711ire have been previous terrorist at-
        tacks on senior United
        States Army offi-
        cers in Europe. In Jude IM a bomb was
        placed under an automobile in which
        Gen
             . Alexander M. Haig. Jr, then the
        Supreme Commander of Allied Forces
        in Europe, was riding near his head-
        quarters in Belgium. Mr, Haig is Seem
        tary of State now.
        General?s Auto Was Ambushed
             On Sept. 15 a 'terrorist unit in West

        
        Germany ambushed an automobile car-
        rying Gen. Frederick J. Kroesen, the
        commander of United States forces in
        Europe, and his wife.
             In neither case were the officers seri.
        ously injured. But security gudrds were
        hurt.
             A Pentagon spokesman said tonight
        that generals serving in Europe had
        been cautioned after the attack on Gen.
        eral Xxoesen to be more aware of their
        person security. He declined to:give do..
        tails.
             General Dozier, according to his
        records in the Pentagon, was graduat4~d
        from the' Military Academy at Wes(
        Point in 1956 and.is an armored forces
        officer, Before going to Italy, he wal
        successively a brigade commander, J~
        division chief.of staff and a corps chiet
        of staff at Fort Hood, Tex,
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             ROME, Frida~, Dec. 18 - A United!
        States Army spokesman said tonight,'
        that General Dozier had beeriabducted,
        by four armed men who entered his
        apartment disguised as plumbers.
             The Italian news agency ANSA said,~
        Prime Minister Giovanni Spadolini had'
        ordered a major search.
             Tlie spokesman, Maj. Mario Gairgiu-1
        lo, said -the Iddnappers had struck thel
        general, stunning him. They -bound h1W
        wife with chains and plastic tape.
                  Major Gargiulo said the general had
             up no resistance, possibly to prevent'
             = to his wife, Judith. He quoted Mrs.'
             Dozier as saying the meA took her hus-,
             away in what appeared to be a
        steamship trunk. She was slightly in-;
        ured around the wrists from being'
             Major Gargullo said the abduction
        was discovered when Mrs. Dozier
        alerted neighbors by banging on the
        wall of her sLxtb-floor apartment.
             The spokesman said the police had
        found a van in Veronalhat they believed
        was the getaway vehiple.
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