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Like some macabre fulfillment of McLuhanism, the bloodiest and most suspenseful act in the tragedy of Patricia Campbell Hearst became a public event. Millions of Americans watched last week as television carried live the Shootout in a Los Angeles residential neighborhood between lawmen and members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, which had kidnaped-and claimed to have converted to radical terrorism-the 20-year-old publishing heiress. The TV images seemed plucked from old Viet Nam film clips: street fighting in Danang perhaps, the helicopters wheeling overhead, the hissing tear-gas canisters, finally the flames of the enemy...
...Patty Hearst was not among them, and so might still be alive. But the five included the leaders of the S.L.A. believed to be her constant captor-companions, raising the fear that she might have been killed earlier as the dragnet was closing in on the S.L.A. The dead...
...Donald David DeFreeze, 30, nominal leader of the S.L.A., a black who called himself General Field Marshal Cinque and whose belligerent voice threatened and denigrated the Hearst family on the tapes that the S.L.A. periodically released. An escaped convict and a reputed onetime police informer, DeFreeze took part at the California Medical Facility at Vacaville in the activities of the Black Cultural Association, an organization that attracted a few embittered whites and eventually was to help spawn the S.L.A...
...ruins, police found a formidable arsenal that included six sawed-off shotguns, one automatic rifle and two submachine guns. As the five bodies were removed in brown rubber bags, one of the witnesses who stood by, staring at the smoking rubble, was Steven Weed, whom Patty Hearst had renounced as her fiance. He would only say that he would remain in town until the bodies were identified...
...bodies were so disfigured that at first the Los Angeles coroners could determine only that three were females and one of the males was black and the other white. To help in the identifications, the coroner's office sent for Patty Hearst's dental records. Early Saturday morning, Patty's father, Randolph Hearst, called the coroner's office and asked to be told the results of the study before word was given to the press...