Dolores Anne Baker, who was kidnaped with a friend on October 1 by Jordanians and held for ten days, was identified today as a niece of Henry Cabot Lodge, the Republican candidate for the vice-presidency.
Miss Baker, 25, and her friend, Tony Falco, are attending a Hebrew Ulpan course at the Kibbutz at Givat Hayim. They were returning from a picnic when they were seized by armed Jordanian guardsmen, blindfolded and taken to a tent where they were interrogated by a Jordanian major. After the questioning, they were taken to a prison in the Old City of Jerusalem, where they were kept for 10 days before being returned to Israel, The two young people said they were molested by their Jordanian captors.
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