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Before news of the abduction was made public, the bureau received a tip that the daughter of William Randolph Hearst, not Randolph A. Hearst, had been kidnaped. "It has been like that," says Austin. "Tips that get twisted. Rumors with kernels of truth. Outright lies." How, then, to get the story? "It's like being a fireman," says Boyce. "You answer every alarm though you know it may be false. You continue to dig, check and crosscheck, and try to put the pieces together...
...Linguistics Instructor Colston Westbrook, the former S.L.A. intimate who is now in hiding, and learned from him about the organization's early history. Boyce, in fact, recently arranged a phone conversation between Westbrook, then under cover on the East Coast, and a man eager to talk with him-Randolph A. Hearst...
...abductors, and adopted the name Tania, after the German-Argentine mistress of Latin American Revolutionary Che Guevara. Whether through conversion or coercion, she materialized last week in the role of a foul-mouthed bank robber. In the bewilderment shared by all who have followed the case, her anguished father Randolph A. Hearst exclaimed: "It's terrible! Sixty days ago, she was a lovely child. Now there's a picture of her in a bank with a gun in her hand...
Once relatively calm and collected, Patty's parents are showing signs of strain. Catherine Hearst seems despondent; her reaction to the bank-robbery pictures reportedly was, "Doesn't my Patty look thin and tired?" Even Randolph Hearst has begun to despair. "We have hope," he says, "but it is not too bright now." He is willing to clutch at any straw and search anywhere for an intermediary who can put him in touch with the S.L.A. He recently visited Clifford Jefferson, a black lifer at Vacaville known as "Death Row Jeff' who knew Cinque very well. Hearst has even talked...
...appeasement of his daughter's kidnapers by Randolph Hearst is, in a word, appalling. The example set by the Hearst kidnaping can only result in more of the same. The U.S.: North America's first banana republic...