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Wish We Had That ‘Broads Connections’ Charles Bates, FBi agent | The amazing story of a | 44-year-old TV newswoman ' who stayed two weeks ahead of the police in her revelations about the Hearst kidnaping case By Bill Davidson The phone rang suddenly during the 7 PM. news hour on KQED, San Fran- cisto’s public-television slation, which operaies out of a decrepit, formerly | abandoned warehouse in the city’s in- dustrial slums. It was exactly 7:12 on Feb, 18. At the time of lhe call, KQED's 44-year-old, deceptively-housewilely- looking No. 1 reporter, Marilyn Baker, was on the ait with her fatest findings in the Patricia Hearst kidnaping case. News director Joe Russin took the cali, and heard a muffied voice say, “This is the Symbionese Liberation Army. There's a plastic bomb—meant for Marilyn Baker. lt wii! go off at 8:17." Then, just the hum of the dial tone. in a matter of minutes—-while the 7 P.M news conlinued—cops swarmed ai! “orerne raity KQED news roam—pvep . . —— — . Saimgronto the set. Bomb-squad men in armored clothing tipped apart Mar- ilyn's desk in search of hidden ex- plosives. When Marifya finished her broadcast at 8:00, one of the cops said, “Think very hard. Where would you normatiy be at 8:17?" , She said, “I don have to think very hard. I'd be in my caf—~on my way home.” The bomb-squad men rushed out into the empty sleet, where the hood of Marilyn's car gaped open. Inside, they found an ignition wire ripped out—seemingly ready to be at- tached to a bomb. Tre cops, apparently, had poured out of the building soon enough to interrupt the bomb instatier in mid-task. The police guard on Mrs. Baker, pul inlo effect six days earlier, was m- creased. And that night, her 26-year-old son Jeff, an ex-marine, stood waich in her living room with a toaded rifle. it had afl begun across the Bay in + Qakland last Nov. 6, with the assassing- tion of Marcus Foster, Oakland's black superintendent af schools. The Sym- bionese Liberation Army surfaced then to claim responsibility for the murder, and established its claim by mention- ing the cyanide-tipped bullets that had been used in the attack on Foster and his assistant Aobert Blackburn {who was wounded), “l was busy elsewhere,” Marityn said, “but that cyanid@oar > | Steet ; Sense interested me. 4 Chtchedt } iwith the coroner and found out it would have taken at feast 35 such bul: lets to deliver enough cyanide to kill Foster. Thats why Blackburn. who was hit by the came cyanide, recovered from | tes wounds. E wert on our Nowsroar | show wib the siory, bul everyone else | 4 | | i | 4 i kent making a bia Ining aut of the ‘deadly’ oyadidie:tatiet thing.” Marilyn became totally involved with the SLA after police inetticiency cept d up inthe arrest on Jan. 10 ol Sha a combers Josenh Remiro and Pus: } ai! thie, who nave been charger . UE was °9:30 Gs vin Fosters ta : bape jnomng,” Marlyn says, “and 2 daurmiy spcalis car made a SOUNDS } I stce cf a van crves by two guys hi pes vy te suburnan resented tev } wae) Bay, and & ven lai Censors crore time cl aint: tfangat suep-ciou ne die ab Bog won said he was testing far the Oe% \ I acuse on Suthedand Onve. Then vas {tie cop began to check his Grvers } License. which was a fowe, he pulled = a Guy, There was @ shvot-oul, ond evontuaiy coth Remiro enc Lites ware tape, There wen @ tol of SLA fit- ! i crature ia the van. bul no one thouget bio cteck the Devolo Rouse, just teo i plocks way. If they hac. ihe, wor'd | T Guide Radnor, Penn. June 8-14, 1974 Pages 5-9