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Wenner lied. In a 13,000-word article by Associate Editor Howard Kohn and Freelancer David Weir, the 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...
Scott, who is hiding out with his wife Micki, phoned Examiner Reporter Larry Kramer last week to denounce the Rolling Stone piece as a "crass, sensationalized attempt to discredit Patty Hearst and her defense." He did not dispute the story but insisted that Kohn and Weir got their information while working as investigators for Scott's former defense attorney, Michael Kennedy. If that is true, then Kohn and Weir would be guilty of a clear breach of journalistic ethics...
False Report. Kohn and Weir are not just any run-of-the-city-room journalists. Kohn, 28, once a prizewinning investigative reporter for the Detroit Free Press, was fired by the paper in 1973 for fabricating a story about his own alleged kidnaping; he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of filing a false police report and was given six months' probation. Weir, 28, feature editor of a slick investigative magazine called Sun-Dance before its demise in 1972, wrote the article that exposed Acid King Timothy Leary as a police informer, discrediting him in the eyes...
Jack Scott may have his own credibility problems. TIME has learned that Scott approached Kohn and Weir last Memorial Day weekend and asked them to help him write a book and a magazine article about Patty and the S.L.A. The trio negotiated with McGraw-Hill Editor John Simon for a contract, but Simon's bosses rejected their price-a $100,000 to $200,000 advance-as excessive, and had doubts about the reliability of their information. Scott, Kohn and Weir then went to work on the Rolling Stone article, for which the magazine offered Scott as much...
...matters, literal biblical interpretations. Last week four members of the church's 18-man mission-board staff resigned, partly in protest against "the oppressive use of power" in the denomination's hierarchy, headed by conservative President Jacob A.O. Preus. Two weeks ago, the staffs director, William H. Kohn, quit, and two more members will resign when they return from trips overseas. The departures from the staff, which administers all church mission activity at home and abroad, follow the spectacular split between the church's Concordia Seminary in St. Louis and "Seminex," the new, more liberal seminary...