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...woman whom the members of the S.L.A. claimed as their latest convert, Tania-Patty, was surely the most unlikely terrorist recruit of all. Granddaughter of the legendary publisher William Randolph Hearst, she grew up with four sisters in a 22-room house in the suburb of Hillsborough. At Berkeley, she was partly supported with $300 a month from a trust fund and credit cards in her father's name. Patty had never demonstrated much interest in politics. Those who know her describe her as reserved and strongwilled. Says Brother-in-Law Jay Bosworth: "I wouldn't characterize her as naive...
...parents, Randolph Apperson and Catherine Hearst, were notably apolitical and in general stayed aloof from the Burlingame Country Club set around Hillsborough. Since her kidnaping, Randolph, chairman of the Hearst Corp. and editor of the San Francisco Examiner, has devoted himself almost entirely to getting Patty released. Before he paid out $500,000 for food as part of the effort to satisfy the S.L. A.'s demands, he estimated his net worth at $2 million. He earns about $100,000 a year from the Hearst Corp. Wife Catherine, a Southern belle from Atlanta, is a staunch Roman Catholic...
...Patricia's ordeal dragged through a second week, life at the Hearsts' $300,000 cream-colored stucco mansion in the San Francisco suburb of Hillsborough took on a grim order. The 15 rooms, many of them decorated with antiques from the fabled San Simeon mansion of Patricia's grandfather William Randolph Hearst, were filled with agonized friends and family. Among them were Patricia's four sisters and her fiance Stephen Weed, 26, who had been badly beaten by the kidnapers. FBI agents set up a command center in the library, which was crammed with six telephones on the chance that...
Michael D. Felsen of 2022 Massachusetts Avenue and Great Neck, New York; Daniel C. Fisher of Winthrop House and Claremont, California; Kenneth F. Fong of Kirkland House and Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Robert E. Friedman of Lowell House and Hillsborough, California; James P. Frosch of Dunster House and Great Neck, New York...
...Peterson is gregarious; Clausen is reserved. In conversation, Clausen uses few gestures and speaks to the point without small talk, though an occasional boyish grin prevents his manner from seeming cold. He plans his day carefully during the half-hour morning train ride from his home in suburban Hillsborough, gets into the office by 8 o'clock. He says he makes decisions by listening carefully to all the facts that subordinates present and then weighing not only the facts but "my assessment of the people who are making recommendations." One of his current judgments is that the slowdown...