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...audience that the events they are seeing are real. The rest of the film is so austere and exemplary that it's hard to believe the truth can be so simple; Adele's passion is so inhuman that it seems to cry out for the reenactment of an affidavit to its reality...
...S.L.A. account does not name any of the persons who kidnaped Patty, but investigators believe that one was Bill Harris, her former comrade in arms. Patty now lives in fear of Harris and of other S.L.A. supporters, perhaps because of the attack on the S.L.A. in the affidavit that her lawyers submitted for her last month. Says a source close to the family: "She's scared she's going to be killed...
...four experts appointed by the court to determine if Patty is mentally competent to stand trial is Dr. Louis J. West, chairman of the department of psychiatry at U.C.L.A. and a leading student of thought control. Three days before Patty's lawyers released her affidavit, he discussed her case with TIME Correspondent Patricia Delaney. "It would be a mistake for people to judge the case prior to a careful examination of Patricia Hearst and all the facts," he said. "The Hearst case may be an example of someone enmeshed by the forces within a small group which...
After reading Patty's affidavit, other experts are skeptical about her account. Chalmers Johnson, a University of California political scientist who has studied brainwashing, doubts that Patty was ever as strongly influenced as she claims. "She may have been driven into hysteria and even into a catatonic state after her kidnaping," Johnson says, "but she was not brainwashed. No one can persuade me that Cinque [S.L.A. Chief Donald DeFreeze] was bright or skillful enough to brainwash anyone...
Albert Raven, a psychology professor at Michigan State University, feels that if Patty had been brainwashed she would not have snapped back as rapidly as described in her affidavit. Says Chicago Psychiatrist Marvin Ziporyn: "If people believe that this girl sat around for 18 months because she was brainwashed, then I'm going to start robbing banks tomorrow because they'll believe anything...