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...events chronicled in this week's cover story come as no surprise to TIME readers, thanks in part to its author, Contributing Editor Patricia Blake, who predicted them in a story in the Feb. 11 issue. An avid daily reader of Soviet newspapers, she early assessed the direction of the campaign that was being waged against Alexander Solzhenitsyn. Since Blake for the past three years has also been writing a book about Solzhenitsyn, she is able to describe both the man and his dilemma with authority...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Feb. 25, 1974 | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...recovering a loved one unharmed. Last week one of the nation's most celebrated families, the Hearsts of California, continued trying desperately to deal with an altogether different abduction: perhaps the first political kidnaping in U.S. history. Members of the revolutionary Symbionese Liberation Army, who dragged 19-year-old Patricia Hearst from her Berkeley apartment and flung her into the trunk of a getaway car, at first ordered her father Randolph to feed all the needy of California as a condition for her return. It was a demand that not even the Hearst millions could possibly meet...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Ordeal of a Political Prisoner | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...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...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Ordeal of a Political Prisoner | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...S.L.A.'s first communique, delivered by mail to an FM radio station in Berkeley, also contained a tape cassette on which Patricia had recorded a message to her parents beginning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Ordeal of a Political Prisoner | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

...quivering monotone, kept her blindfolded most of the time, often with her hands tied, but "I'm not being starved or beaten." She noted that her captors had automatic weapons and warned against any rescue attempts by police. "These people aren't just a bunch of nuts," said Patricia. "They're perfectly willing to die for what they are doing. And I just hope that you'll do what they say, Daddy, and do it quickly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Ordeal of a Political Prisoner | 2/25/1974 | See Source »

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