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...Patty Hearst - though the week began on a distinctly optimistic note. Relieved by the Symbionese terrorists of their original demand for a "sign of good faith"- a monumental food giveaway to every low-income or aged person or ex-convict in California, which could cost up to $400 million - Randolph Hearst proceded to outline a more modest offer. It was a food-distribution plan, called "People in Need," or PIN, modeled on a highly successful Washington State program created in 1970 to provide basic groceries for families that could not afford them. Hearst promised to fund the plan with...
...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 Randolph Hearst. "I expect them to make a gesture of sincerity themselves...
...what they are publishing is propaganda produced by the S.L.A. For Patricia's father Randolph is not only a wealthy, prominent citizen. He is also president and editor of the Examiner, and his daughter's abductors-members of the S.L.A.-have trapped him in a professional dilemma that is inseparable from his personal anguish...
...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 Patty...
Treason and bribery, it was readily agreed during the debate on the Constitution, would be obvious grounds for impeaching a President. What else? "Abusing his power," Edmund Randolph of Virginia suggested. James Madison favored protection against "incapacity, negligence or perfidy in the chief magistrate." But when George Mason proposed adding "maladministration" to treason and bribery, Madison thought the word "so vague as to be equivalent to a tenure during the pleasure of the Senate." Borrowing a catchall phrase from English usage, Mason thereupon substituted "high crimes and misdemeanors." Without debate, this curious phrase, which has bedeviled political discourse ever since...