Word: heiress
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kidnap hideout. The hostage was Tiede Herrema, 54, Dutch manager of a foreign-owned steel plant who had been abducted near Monaleen, four miles from Limerick, apparently by Irish Republican Army extremists. The kidnapers demanded the release of three notorious I.R.A. terrorists, including Bridget Rose Dugdale, 34, the militant heiress and Ph.D. in economics who is serving a nine-year sentence in Limerick prison for hijacking a helicopter and for stealing $20 million worth of paintings from a private collector. One of the kidnapers was believed to be Eddie Gallagher, known I.R.A. Provo and putative father of Dugdale...
...magazine last week printed Part 1 of the first comprehensive and convincing account of Patty Hearst's life on the lam. The story, which the writers claim they got from three sources they would not reveal even if threatened with jail, said among other things that the heiress was driven across the country at least twice by Sports Activist Jack Scott (see THE NATION). Indeed, Scott figures so heavily in the detailed narrative that he appears to be its prime source...
...appalled by the violence of the whole affair: the strong-arm kidnaping near a college campus, then the bank robbery in which Patty herself wielded a gun, then the surrealistic, nationally televised shootout that left six of her companions dead. With some apprehension, parents debated just why Patty, the heiress to a celebrated fortune, had become a self-proclaimed revolutionary. Many people claimed to have spotted her in various parts of the world, yet she managed to elude the great chase-until last Thursday...
...near-capture of Boudin was "too close a call for the Weatherpeople," says a federal investigator. "To them, Patty was nothing but a source of heat. They considered her more of a goofy heiress than a true revolutionary. The word went out to keep away from...
...drive to help restore long-lost prestige and sinking circulation (TIME, Feb. 10), have also decried that timidity. As Murray Olderman, who covered the case for the Newspaper Enterprise Association, put it: "Would the San Francisco papers have reacted in the same spirit of cooperation if a Bolivian tin heiress had been kidnaped instead of a local publisher's daughter...