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Deprived of such shelter, Patty and the Harrises next occupied an isolated farmhouse in Pennsylvania's Pocono Mountains, near the hamlet of South Canaan. They did so, the FBI believes, with the aid of Jack Scott, former athletics director at Ohio's Oberlin College, who with his wife Micki has refused to answer FBI questions or appear before a federal grand jury investigating the movements of Patty and the Harrises...
...crucial clue in the Hearst case, TIME has learned, turned out to be the red Volkswagen. It had been spotted at a farm in South Canaan that the fugitives had used as a hideout. A former owner of the car told authorities he had sold it to one Kathleen Soliah, who had given her address as a post office box number in San Francisco. Checking further, the FBI learned that Soliah had been friendly with S.L.A. members and other radicals, known as the "Tom Thumb" group, suspected of robbing a bank near Sacramento last April 21. A young woman...
Alarmed, Patty's group fled Manhattan and rented an isolated farmhouse near South Canaan, a hamlet in northwest Pennsylvania about 25 miles from Scranton. They had picked an ideal spot. There were already a number of established hippie communes on the region's abandoned farms, and no one was likely to notice another group arriving in a dusty van to set up housekeeping. Scott paid the total rent of $1,200 in cash...
...Canaan, Conn...
...metallurgical techniques from the Midianites, a little-known people who dwelled in the area and are identified in Genesis as the first metalworkers. With the help of the Midianites, the pharaohs apparently ran the mine for some 150 years, until about 1250 B.C. Subsequently, the Egyptians pulled out of Canaan and the neighboring Sinai -perhaps, says Rothenberg, under pressure from their enemies, the Philistines and Israelites...