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Ransom Demands. The S.L.A. communique early in the week demanded that Hearst provide $70 worth of "top" meats, vegetables and dairy products to everyone in California holding one of several certificates attesting to neediness: welfare cards, Social Security pension cards, food stamp cards, disabled-veteran cards, Medi-Cal (the state's version of Medicare) cards, parole or probation papers and jailor bail-release slips. The food was to be distributed through supermarkets for three days during each of the next four weeks, and the S.L.A. suggested that the program be supervised by several groups, including the Black Panthers, Cesar Chavez...
...alone would come to $133 million and that other people deemed eligible by the S.L.A. might make it as high as $400 million. Even if the logistics of finding and distributing so much food could be worked out?a doubtful proposition?that kind of money was certainly beyond even Hearst's means...
...family's strategy was to attempt to find a compromise. Urging Patricia over television to "hang in there, honey," Hearst promised to make "some kind of counteroffer that is acceptable...
Evidently, that general idea met the S.L.A.'s approval. At week's end, the Hearsts received a second tape recording from Patricia relaying a conciliatory message: her captors would not insist, she said, that Hearst comply to the letter with their original instructions. Quite aside from relieving Patricia's family from an impossible task, the communique was encouraging evidence that the S.L.A. was bargaining seriously and might eventually set terms within reason for her release. "I think I can get out of here as long as they [the FBI] don't come busting in," said Patricia. She also urged...
...radicalized black. The original Cinque was an African who in 1839 led a revolt aboard the slave ship transporting him to the U.S. The New York Post noted last week that the plot of Black Abductor, a novel of politics and pornography published in 1972, closely resembles the Hearst kidnaping. In the book, an heiress-coed named Patricia is held for ransom by a racially mixed group of radicals in America's "first political kidnaping...