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...sharp-featured, talkative man, has known the Hearsts for years. "Heavens," he says, "you can't be around California and not know Randy." The judge remembers Patty as a little girl running through the family's former 15-room mansion in the wealthy suburb of Hillsborough. He is not overwhelmed by the Hearsts or intimidated by his job. Says he: "All of their money and power falls off me like water off a duck's back...
...wife, genteel daughter of a Georgia telephone executive, was dumbfounded by the violence and noticeably more anxious. A devout Roman Catholic, she spent many hours in prayer. In their helplessness, the parents began to clutch at straws: two psychics were invited to the Hearsts' house in suburban Hillsborough and ran their fingers over a map of Northern California seeking "impulses" of Patty's whereabouts. Searching for a way to reach his daughter, Randolph Hearst paid a call on "Death Row Jeff," an inmate at Vacaville State Prison who was acquainted with the S.L.A.'s Donald DeFreeze. Three...
...Parke Gibson, a New York City marketing analyst who advises corporations on how to tap the $46 billion-a-year black market, says that buying sprees by blacks may be something of a defense mechanism, a compensation for earlier deprivation. "We couldn't live in Hillsborough or Beverly Hills," he says, "but we could have the same kind of color television...
Finally, it's easy to guess whether the police would have so cavalierly destroyed the SLA's hideout had its members fled to a stucco mansion like the Hearsts' in Hillsborough rather than to the modest home of a black family living on the edges of a southeast Los Angeles ghetto. That the police should have appeared "the good guys" on television was ironic, all the more so because California authorities are using SLA activities as an excuse for rounding up dozens of Bay area radicals on unverified charges...
...when he was accused by a student-faculty discipline committee?and later exonerated?of participating in a sit-in that obstructed a Marine Corps recruiter visiting the campus. Weed was found to be nothing more than a bystander. He was teaching at the Crystal Springs school for girls in Hillsborough when he first met Patty. By last December, the two were engaged, and he had enrolled at Berkeley. Since Patty's kidnaping, Weed has deeply involved himself in the attempt to free her. On April 7, reported New Times, he secretly flew to Mexico City to visit French Marxist Regis...