Word: trios
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Roger has spent nearly all the 7,500 bucks, so when Brogan tracks him down he has almost nothing to return. The stoolie, the cop and the girl friend then form an unlikely trio, trying to figure a means to make the money back. There is a final burst of sentimentality that manages to promise both happy futures and just deserts. It also reveals the sappy foundation beneath the movie's superficially tough exterior, like a stand-up comic who spikes his patter with a tear...
...S.L.A. In addition, said Matthews, Patty admitted that she had willingly taken part in the S.L.A.'s robbery of a San Francisco bank on April 15. And she said that she had been the one who riddled the sporting-goods storefront with automatic fire to cover the trio's escape after William Harris had been caught shoplifting...
...Busch reconstructed the series of events, the S.L.A. trio sped away from the store in a red and white van, then pulled up behind a parked car. Harris and one of the women took the car at gunpoint from its two occupants. "We are S.L.A.," Harris announced. "We need your car. I have to kill someone, and I don't want to kill...
...week's end, with Patty Hearst and the Harrises still on the loose, the FBI and police were trying to track down a spate of rumors and reports about the trio. One tip had it that Patty would surface in Havana. Another, also unconfirmed, claimed that the Black Muslims had given $50,000 to a black man in Griffith Park two days after the shootout. Some-or all-of the sum was said to have been passed on to the fugitives...
...even with 200 agents working on the case in Los Angeles, had to admit once again that it had no idea where Patty Hearst was. Guards along both the Mexican and Canadian borders were on the alert for the trio. The key problem was that the authorities did not know what happened after Patty and the Harrises abandoned Frank Sutler's car near Griffith Park on the day of the shootings. "We're looking like hell," said William Sullivan, FBI chief in the city, "but we don't know how they departed the area." The last reliable...