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...shrill rhetoric was not new to America's politics, but the actions that backed it up certainly were. On one coast of the U.S. last week, those chilling words ended the latest communique from the kidnapers of Patricia Hearst, the California publishing heiress who was nearing the end of her third week in the clutches of the violently leftist fringe group that calls itself the Symbionese Liberation Army. On the other side of the nation, in grim ideological counterpoint, a man who identified himself as a "colonel" in a far-right "army" abducted John Reginald (Reg) Murphy, the soft...
...family's strategy was to attempt to find a compromise. Urging Patricia over television to "hang in there, honey," Hearst promised to make "some kind of counteroffer that is acceptable...
Evidently, that general idea met the S.L.A.'s approval. At week's end, the Hearsts received a second tape recording from Patricia relaying a conciliatory message: her captors would not insist, she said, that Hearst comply to the letter with their original instructions. Quite aside from relieving Patricia's family from an impossible task, the communique was encouraging evidence that the S.L.A. was bargaining seriously and might eventually set terms within reason for her release. "I think I can get out of here as long as they [the FBI] don't come busting in," said Patricia. She also urged...
Despite the optimism generated by the week's second S.L.A. message, there lurked the possibility that the kidnapers would yet demand other fantastic "signs of good faith" before releasing their captive?if it ever does. Patricia hinted in her first message that there is "an analogy" between her abduction and the police capture of two suspected S.L.A. members now charged with the murder last November of Dr. Marcus Foster, the black superintendent of schools in Oakland. Authorities expect that Patricia's kidnapers may well ultimately demand their release. Beyond that, some law-enforcement officials despair that, following the skyjacking syndrome...
...revolt aboard the slave ship transporting him to the U.S. The New York Post noted last week that the plot of Black Abductor, a novel of politics and pornography published in 1972, closely resembles the Hearst kidnaping. In the book, an heiress-coed named Patricia is held for ransom by a racially mixed group of radicals in America's "first political kidnaping...