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When all legal efforts failed to overturn the conviction of Patty Hearst for armed robbery, her lawyers and friends mounted a campaign to persuade President Carter to commute her sentence. They argued that Patty had suffered enough and indeed had been treated with special severity by the law because of the wealth and social prominence of her family. Thousands of calls and letters poured into the White House urging her release...
Carter and the Department of Justice agreed with those pleas, and last week after a presidential commutation, Patty Hearst was freed from a California prison, five months before she was eligible for parole. She had served 22 months and 17 days of her seven-year sentence for her part in the Symbionese Liberation Army bank robbery in April...
...Patty Hearst, the commutation was the chance to start again. "This is what we all wanted," she said, waving her release papers before being driven to her family's posh home in the San Francisco suburbs for a catered champagne breakfast with her now legally separated parents, her four sisters and a crying and cheering group of friends...
...William Berenberg '36, professor of Pediatrics and chairman of the Cerebral Palsy Foundation's research committee, helped arrange the gift to Harvard. Berenberg said yesterday the Hearst Foundation currently supports research by two members of the Med School faculty, but this is the largest gift it has ever given to the University...
...Hearst Foundation, created in 1951 by newspaper magnate William Randolph Hearst, has had an "on-going interest in research on children's diseases" and has given grants to Harvard researchers in the past, Robert M. Frehse, managing director of the foundation, said yesterday...