Word: tania
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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WHEN PATTY HEARST wanted to symbolize the end of her bourgeois existence and her reincarnation as a dedicated revolutionary, she chose to rechristen herself Tania. The Tania she was thinking of was an Argentinian communist undercover-agent and guerilla fighter who was killed with Che Guevara in Bolivia in 1967. But this Tania--the subject of the current production at the Cambridge Ensemble--was in fact the second in the line of revolutionary Tanias, having abandoned her given name. Tamara Bunke, to rename herself after "the Tania that died in the siege of Leningrad...
...three weeks after her six comrades in the Symbionese Liberation Army died in a Shootout with police, Patricia ("Tania") Hearst dropped out of sight. Last week she and Fellow Survivors William and Emily Harris surfaced in a 33-minute tape-recorded message clandestinely delivered to radio station KPFK in Los Angeles. In it the newspaper heiress heaped scorn on her parents, vowed to fight on against "the pigs," and revealed that she had taken an S.L. A. member as her lover...
...window parked in front of the Matthews home. Emily Harris walked up to Tom Matthews and said she would like to test-drive the truck. Once around the corner, Emily stopped to pick up her husband and Patty. "Do you know who this is?" Harris asked Matthews. "This is Tania." Tania was the name Patty had adopted with the S.L.A. and used while making several of her well-publicized tapes...
...Hooray to you students of Berkeley who see fit to idolize Patricia Hearst, or "Tania," for her membership in an organization that has Black Panther Leader Huey Newton targeted for death for abandoning the use of violence as a tactic. You have really got it all together, people. Just one question, though. Is this the same Berkeley that was the seat of protests against the senseless killings of the Viet...
...were engaged, and he had enrolled at Berkeley. Since Patty's kidnaping, Weed has deeply involved himself in the attempt to free her. On April 7, reported New Times, he secretly flew to Mexico City to visit French Marxist Regis Debray, who was one of the original Tania's closest friends. At Weed's behest, Debray wrote Patty a letter that said in part: "I ask you only to assure me that you have consciously and freely chosen to take the name and follow the example of Tania...