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...frantic effort seemed to buoy law-enforcement officials and the Hearst family. Charles Bates, head of the FBI'S task force in the Hearst case, got a "seat-of-the-pants feeling" that Patricia might be freed last Wednesday, on her 20th birthday. Mother Catherine Hearst, who had been gently criticized by Patricia in one message for appearing on TV in somber black clothes, promised that she would don "a pretty dress" for her daughter's return. "They've asked me to make a gesture of sincerity, and that's what we've done," said...
...militants seemed to accept his invitation. In a letter to the S.L.A. sent to the San Francisco Chronicle, a writer for the underground Black Liberation Army - believed to be a 200-member group split off from the Black Panthers - presented "the most profound revolutionary greetings" from his group to Patricia's kidnapers...
...that the matter of his daughter's plight "is now out of my hands." Then the publisher of the Hearst Corp.'s San Francisco Examiner, Charles L. Gould, quickly made another desperate counteroffer. The Hearst Corp., he said, would donate the additional $4 million to PIN "provided Patricia Hearst is released unharmed." Gould made it clear that the offer was final. The stage was thus set for the S.L.A. to reach a decision on Patricia's fate: to release her, to hold her as a "prisoner of war" indefinitely or to carry out the grisly threats that...
...kidnapings. Newsmen were hardly unaware of the kidnapers' headline-hunting instincts. Yet it was impossible to deliberately downplay the kidnapings, as was done with street rioting in the '60s with some success. Not only were the abductions compelling news, but also the S.L.A. demanded, on pain of Patricia's death, that its propaganda be printed and broadcast in full (see THE PRESS...
That was before the kidnaping of Patricia Hearst. Now, says a Chronicle reporter, "San Francisco newspapers for the first time are being forced to print things over which they have no control...