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Wenner lied. In a 13,000-word article by Associate Editor Howard Kohn and Freelancer David Weir, the magazine last week printed Part 1 of the first comprehensive and convincing account of Patty Hearst's life on the lam. The story, which the writers claim they got from three sources they would not reveal even if threatened with jail, said among other things that the heiress was driven across the country at least twice by Sports Activist Jack Scott (see THE NATION). Indeed, Scott figures so heavily in the detailed narrative that he appears to be its prime source...
Scott, who is hiding out with his wife Micki, phoned Examiner Reporter Larry Kramer last week to denounce the Rolling Stone piece as a "crass, sensationalized attempt to discredit Patty Hearst and her defense." He did not dispute the story but insisted that Kohn and Weir got their information while working as investigators for Scott's former defense attorney, Michael Kennedy. If that is true, then Kohn and Weir would be guilty of a clear breach of journalistic ethics...
False Report. Kohn and Weir are not just any run-of-the-city-room journalists. Kohn, 28, once a prizewinning investigative reporter for the Detroit Free Press, was fired by the paper in 1973 for fabricating a story about his own alleged kidnaping; he pleaded nolo contendere to a charge of filing a false police report and was given six months' probation. Weir, 28, feature editor of a slick investigative magazine called Sun-Dance before its demise in 1972, wrote the article that exposed Acid King Timothy Leary as a police informer, discrediting him in the eyes...
...deputy commander of Würzburg and of various support units in an area covering nearly one-third of southern West Germany, Hopfenspirger is one of a growing number of women to step into important command assignments. Colonel Frances Weir, 47, issues orders to a mostly male outfit at the support battalion in Fort Jackson, S.C. Colonel Georgia Hill, 49, is head of the sprawling supply depot at Cameron Station...
...harness, and steers by leaning right or left. He may also get aloft behind a motorboat or automobile -a more dangerous technique. Though James Bond used a Rogallo in his latest flick to swoop down on the bad guy, a far more spectacular flight was made recently when Jim Weir, 26, a gardener, and Burke Ewing, a 19-year-old student, both from San Diego, jumped from the top of 10,830-ft. Mount San Jacinto above Palm Springs. Recalls Weir: "I was in a screaming dive toward the mountain and there was nothing I could do about it. That...