Word: berkeley
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last January I decided I would spend my summer vacation on the Pacific coast pursuing the California Dream. My plans were far from concrete--maybe I would take a course at Berkeley, or write poetry, or just hang out in the East Bay with may buddy Buster, listening to Tower of Power and walking the streets. On June 3, my papers finished, my exams over, I packed up my Long Island-Middle Class-California Dream and hit the road west...
...checked into the Youth Hostel and went looking for work. I had read my Kerouac. I know what one did in California, and I was determined to get a piece of the West Coast action. I was on my own, meeting people on Telegraph Avenue and going to wild Berkeley bashes and digging the time away, but despite my dreams and my intentions, I soon realized that I was all partied out. This was not Cambridge, this wasn't my home turf, and my doubts were reinforced nightly when I made collect phone calls back to Sue in Boston...
...lift when the four were arraigned two hours later in a crowded San Francisco federal court. The first to be handled was Wendy Yoshimura, a Japanese-American artist who disappeared in 1972 after being charged with taking part in a plan to bomb the naval-architecture building on the Berkeley campus of the University of California. Federal authorities believe that she and Patty Hearst have been together since at least the summer of 1974. Magistrate Owen Woodruff dismissed federal fugitive charges against Yoshimura, and remanded her to the custody of Alameda County authorities to face arraignment for her part...
...group left the farmhouse. By the time authorities found the place, only the fingerprints of Wendy Yoshimura remained, but these positively linked her with the other fugitives. Born in a World War II detention camp for Japanese Americans near Fresno, Calif, Yoshimura was a familiar figure in the Berkeley street scene and radical movements, including Venceremos. She had become a fugitive as early as 1972, when explosives for use in the abortive Berkeley bombing plot were found in her garage. Yoshimura and three men were indicted by a California grand jury in the conspiracy...
Understandably, Mrs. Hearst was remembering the daughter she knew before the trouble began. Until Patty Hearst made her first truculent declaration of revolutionary fervor, read in a flat unemotional voice on seven tapes delivered to Berkeley radio station KFPA, she had shown few signs of anger at the System. Before her disappearance, she was taking part in the most traditional of rites for an engaged American girl: happily picking out her china pattern. Then, on the night of Feb. 4, 1974, Patty's life changed forever...