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...strange saga of Patricia Hearst has created an uncommonly tough, unpredictable assignment for San Francisco Bureau Chief Joseph Boyce and Correspondent John Austin. Boyce, who joined TIME in 1970 after four years as a reporter with the Chicago Tribune, says that the story "has been the most difficult one to cover in my eight years in journalism." Austin, who has covered Capitol Hill and President Nixon's 1968 campaign for TIME, concurs...
Before news of the abduction was made public, the bureau received a tip that the daughter of William Randolph Hearst, not Randolph A. Hearst, had been kidnaped. "It has been like that," says Austin. "Tips that get twisted. Rumors with kernels of truth. Outright lies." How, then, to get the story? "It's like being a fireman," says Boyce. "You answer every alarm though you know it may be false. You continue to dig, check and crosscheck, and try to put the pieces together...
...Hearst added that he had assumed that the S.L.A. had been going to release his daughter, as promised. Said he: "I've guessed wrong on the S.L.A. all along. I think they're just cruel people...
...brainwashed, drugged, tortured, hypnotized or in any way confused," her stunned parents refused to believe that she had not been coerced into siding with the S.L.A. Nor would they believe that their daughter, who had been genuinely close to them both, could intentionally cause them such grief. Said Mrs. Hearst: "Only Patty in person can convince me that the terrible, weary words that she uttered came from her heart and were delivered by her own free will...
Westbrook had good reason to be holed up. On the same tape with Patty Hearst's latest message was a warning from Cinque that the S.L.A. had named three persons "to be shot on sight" as "enemies of the people." One of the three was Westbrook. The other two: Robyn Steiner, a white girl who used to live with the S.L.A.'s Russell Little; and Chris Thompson, a black resident of Berkeley, who knew several members of the S.L.A. but denies ever having joined...