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...some Americans were still swayed by sympathy for Patty. "I'm really taken aback," said Sylvia Volin, an artist in Bergen County, N.J. "I thought everything was removed from her hands the moment she was kidnaped. My sympathies are with her." Patty's ex-fiancé, Steven Weed, told TIME: "I was more surprised by the speed of the verdict than by the verdict itself. I can't see how any group of people could reach a conclusion beyond a reasonable doubt in something in which nothing is clear." But others felt that the defendant...
Early on, Fort said, Patty had been attracted "to the purposes of the S.L.A." He attributed this reaction to her poor rapport with her family, a dissatisfaction with her life with Fiance Steven Weed, and a yearning for excitement. He estimated that she had willingly joined the S.L.A. about six weeks before the robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco on April...
...Russians, Smith (6) 4-Bring On the Empty Horses, Niven (3) 5-The People's Almanac, Wallechinsky & Wallace (7) 6-The Relaxation Response, Benson (2) 7-Winning Through Intimidation, Ringer (5) 8-Angels, Graham (8) 9-The Adams Chronicles, Shepherd (9) 10-My Search for Patty Hearst, Weed...
...present tense. Singer said that Patty's first taped communiques ("Mom, Dad, I'm O.K.") seemed to be in her own words. But the psychologist felt that Patty had not composed the belligerent "Tania tapes," in which Patty ridiculed her parents and Fiance Steven Weed, declared that she had willingly taken part in the robbery of the Hibernia Bank branch in San Francisco and declared herself a revolutionary ("I have chosen to stay and fight"). After studying S.L.A. tapes and writings, Singer decided that these particular messages were probably read by Patty from scripts prepared by Angela Atwood...
...part because of disciplinary problems. "Didn't you know that she was kicked out of Sacred Heart for telling a nun to go to hell?" asked Bancroft. Patty smiled; West admitted that he knew it. West also said that Patty had smoked marijuana with her fiancé Steven Weed-a point that stimulated Bailey to interject: "Is this to say anyone who 'toots' grass is a bank robber?" West also testified that, at Weed's urging, Patty seemed to have experimented with LSD and mescaline. At the mention of mescaline, Patty looked over at her family...