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ee a ee Patty is unquestionably ayire of what happeneé@ to her 2! friends in Los angeles and still may believe the authorities want to _ kill ng, too. She might be, as one FRI Agent put it, “afraid of the, well, "pigs ‘? : Fel Director Clarence Kelley has assured ARGOSY that he "absolutely” wants Patty alive and well. "This is not a situation of good quys against bad guys, Kelley said. “It is an effort to bring Patty to justice. We're not out on a vendetta.” | It's hishiy vossible, of course, that Patty ana tre tio people who were with her when she was last seen, William and Smily Farris, believe they are destined to be martyrs. But that's counter-productive. Dead people don't accomplish anything. Even Che Guevara’s enshrinement as a hero among manv young people in this country passed with the soce2 of today's fads. Human lives are worth more than that. Ane Melley doesn't want Patty's tragedy to bring any more killings~-to FRI Aqents, to police or to Patty and her friends. "Ne just don’t want any shoot-outs,” he said. "Let's not have any violence.” | Patty probaly doesn't realize that by remaining a fugitive she is giving indirect assistance to certain criminals across the nation _ who are supposec to be her sworn enemies. Look at it this way: in thi first four months of the search for her, the PRI alone invested 98 Agent. years the equivalent of one person's work for alrost a century) and an “estimated $2.6 million. Although accountants have not totaled up the additional expenditures, FRI spokesmen believe it has more than double? in the ensuine months.