Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Telltale Face. Browning also pointed out that Patty had been allowed to stand guard at night at the S.L.A. hideout while armed with a carbine. "Is it reasonable," he asked, "and again we are talking about what's reasonable in this case, to conclude that the captors would entrust their safety to their hostage, if that is what she were...
...passed up to escape from the S.L.A. The prosecutor stumbled on what was perhaps the most important example, which occurred after she was allowed out of the two tiny closets where she said she had been confined for some two months. Questioning her about life in the terrorists' hideout in Apartment 6 at 1827 Golden Gate Avenue in San Francisco, the prosecutor discovered that the members of the group took turns standing guard...
...fear of the FBI had been reinforced when she learned that former U.S. Attorney General William Saxbe had in effect called her a "common criminal." Most alarming of all was the fact that FBI agents on May 17, 1974 stood by during the massive assault on the Los Angeles hideout of the S.L.A. that killed DeFreeze, Wolfe, Atwood and three other members. With the Harrises, Patty had watched the gun battle on TV in a nearby motel. To Patty, the attack was proof that the FBI would not hesitate to kill her. The agency's apparent callousness toward...
...portrayed as antidotes to the headlines of Depression and organized crime. For by then the FBI's 623 trench-coated agents had zeroed in on such notorious criminals as John Dillinger, "Baby Face" Nelson, and "Pretty Boy" Floyd. When operatives cornered George "Machine Gun" Kelly at his Memphis hideout in 1933, Kelly said he surrendered rather than be killed by "G-men," a sobriquet that has adhered to agents in movies and on cereal box tops through the years. In the '30s Hoover was portrayed as a dedicated, hard-working loner who approved wiretaps only in matters...
Deadly Risk. "It's a standoff," said one police officer as the long siege of the kidnap hideout began. While a spotter plane kept the house under constant surveillance, armored cars were stationed outside the front door, and more than 200 soldiers and police surrounded the floodlit house. Loudspeaker appeals for the kidnapers' surrender were met with a broadside of obscene oaths from Gallagher. A psychologist was rushed to the scene to listen to conversations in the besieged bedroom that were monitored by sophisticated electronic equipment borrowed from Scotland Yard. Herrema was heard to call hoarsely for food...