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...ready to blame the S.L.A. for the transformation of Patty Hearst from socialite liberal to violent radical within a few short weeks, then society cannot escape its responsibility for the creation of the S.L.A. Not only do the deplorable social conditions that spawn this kind of group continue to exist, but now, I fear, it is only a matter of time until we will be humming The Ballad of Cinque over our morning coffee...
...ashes from the holocaust and Shootout in Los Angeles had barely cooled last week when law authorities declared that they finally had the answers to two of the most persistent questions about the Patty Hearst saga. They were convinced that the newspaper heiress had really been kidnaped by the Symbionese Liberation Army on Feb. 4 rather than taken part in an elaborate ruse to join old friends. But they were also persuaded that Patty had since joined the cause of the shattered S.L.A. and become a terrorist herself...
Bizarre Touch. According to Matthews, Patty said that she had decided to join her captors after becoming disillusioned with the attempts of her father, Randolph A. Hearst, to secure her release. She felt that he had mishandled the distribution of more than $2 million worth of food to the poor, an effort to meet the demands of the S.L.A. In addition, said Matthews, Patty admitted that she had willingly taken part in the S.L.A.'s robbery of a San Francisco bank on April 15. And she said that she had been the one who riddled the sporting-goods storefront...
...week's end, with Patty Hearst and the Harrises still on the loose, the FBI and police were trying to track down a spate of rumors and reports about the trio. One tip had it that Patty would surface in Havana. Another, also unconfirmed, claimed that the Black Muslims had given $50,000 to a black man in Griffith Park two days after the shootout. Some-or all-of the sum was said to have been passed on to the fugitives...
...even with 200 agents working on the case in Los Angeles, had to admit once again that it had no idea where Patty Hearst was. Guards along both the Mexican and Canadian borders were on the alert for the trio. The key problem was that the authorities did not know what happened after Patty and the Harrises abandoned Frank Sutler's car near Griffith Park on the day of the shootings. "We're looking like hell," said William Sullivan, FBI chief in the city, "but we don't know how they departed the area." The last reliable...