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+ ‘, fay a aad tee ee Ra SRE LIF A ENE 8 Ib TIN EU Ng sok Wee ee “anes Aomrty, teredeSaons Arg AR SY on, a ri oor Ail ste became @:: When tas apc yi piteenty rtided a how hero F Uaesht stig wits > betta held. She felt her PHS og fevblessiy allow. wig the PRY fo risk ber ‘ero. After a wiile it seemed dist her parents’ had given | her up for deed. “Its really deprossias to hear peepty talk about mic dike Po was dead.” ahe sundin her second taped sGitemeat “bo cant explain what at's Hhe.” ther awthee had teken ty wearan: bhick and speaking af Patty in the past ivese, Worse, ber ovther haa innored ee SE SN denna dw oeeeptite aie Sher apeouniaieny fropt then gosernor Rona Reagan as a regent of the University of Catiforan, “To dele ke To could kill her when she did thas” Patty said. "My own mother cidi’t care whether the SLA shot me or nut.” By deerces her cisiflusionnmient with her parents turned into sympathy far the SLA. Cinque was the first o perevive the came | Patty also had a habit ef scan- | Herr ated! me Be atesina ber fa penn : . *“ _ ° 67 ' sbeat the San Francisco apartinent eat beyran rset OPE if yt served as the SLA headquarters, For a month | madn2 Cacii TOL ning” S “lNew : she had been kept in a smail “isalation cham- “7 ® rime z . i —ber*-spproximating a-Sin Quentin hole py OPN TES ~wtix a fen te fa E37 * Sie’d become weak and could barely stand | mS ° * | up. To be able to walk freely fram one room SAID a icte ant ypumt of. to another scemed the world's greatest e235 x SES Out Bite URES of po : pleasure. hee 7 “Cian ¢ 1 Cinque tempered his freauent beratings dlgtaeeg 2 MISS, Pele a ts : peES te | of her. Patty was ursed to arend the SLA‘s r " : > { daily political study sessions. She was invited to-pan LoL 7 TT AED act Ory ¢ to listen to the SLA national anthem, an wVeS Eee TkO Wealons, iil ¥ eeric jazz composition of wind and string q q A yan} that Cingue had selected. And she was fur- Mmawe RO Bans t}B CAITY QV : nished with statistical evidence and quote- res ” =~ . = an | tions front George Jackson and Ruchell Pregl aaeen } raya “5 x ac a ee Masce that promoted her political devetop- oak Cad CHCCUIGAS, DU Take - ment. Less than ten percent of the U.S. 3° % ~ 2 al z population controls 90% of its wealth. Some E20 not Fuie GUY Ime emence peopl: eat catered meals white others sterve. . 4 %, ° Some can aflord fancy lawvers whiie ushers Atay ad wenttsreer ; — aAntnne ! rot in jail. Some live off their inheritances Senmey (8 ROLE {0 Suck facies while others five in squalor and despair. . > A Paity was shown a long list of the Hearst ea bert! ATUL. 66 YY fe: emever x ES Ge}, family holdings—nine newspapers, 13 mag- yon ~ azines, four TV and radio stations, a silver in 4 a; mine, a paper mill and prime real estate. Her Pie ce ips ychoiogicaily Pea! ay parents clearly were part of the ruting cle. oT , x That's why they had quibbled over the ran- tO Mcke WD tira Bun, tney som money. That’s why they had handed out - : 3 “a ‘99 27 . turkey giblets instead of steaks during the 3 it, ™ “a7, food tiveawac that the SLA had demanded. sion a GO i Fine Yahi arZGS whse Money: meant everything to the economic acne Takin See ee “ class of her parents. And the only power . . that could fight that money was the power that came.’ show with words of condescension. Patty was brain- } duck: out of the barrel ef a gun. ‘ washed, Weed said. She would come to her senses if | Pa It was a pefticat pkriloseph: that had bered her be hada chance to be alone with her. : Tine when Weed and his doctaral student friends had dis- | “Frankly, Steven is the once who sounds brain- fl. cussed it in their Berkeley apartment. But Cingue’s washed," Patty shot back in her next communique. “I j tree rouch eloqucace was more persuasive than the abstract | can't beheve those weird words he urtered were from j Buc i tatk of graduate students. The SILA‘’s motives made | his heart.” such 3 scase. They wanted to redistribute the Hearst wealth Weed was Patty's [ast tie to her former life. She “WN io morse necdy. people. It was her parents—and the | had loved him, been faithful to him, pleaded for a | pick : economic class they represented—who were to blame | show of understanding. He'd betrayed her. He was, | Mi far her misery and the misery of countless others. as Cinque: had labeled him much earlicr, an “ageist, ) order The SLA members encouraged her radicalization. | sexist pig.” And They hugeed her, called her sister and ended her | Putty began siceping with 23-year-old Willie Wolfe, | arme: loncliness. Patty's conversion was as much emotional | whom she called Cujo. Of the three men in the SLA, Bil, as political. | Wolfe was the closest to Patty in age and background. | an ell Sevengweeks after she was kidnapped, Patty, asked | The son of 2 Pennsylvania dovtor, he'd attended suhlid to join.the SLA. private schools, been 2 varsity swimnier. nports editor { bers + -.Despite their new respect for her. most of the SLA | of the school paper and gotten roughed up in antiwar: }-fitier? ' soigiers were opposed. Patty would deprive them of | demonstrations. He'd sperit a summer working with Scars ility because her face was so casily recognized. { kids in Harlem, then spurned the Yale family tradition | of the She could not be counted on in emergencies. She did | and enrolicd at Berkeley, where he'd roomed with Th not have the guerritla training the others had. SLA member Russcll Little and met Cinguc. defen But Cinque wanted her to become 3 comrade in He subsequcntly joined the SLA combat unit that | inten: arms. Cingue was the undisputed fcadcr of the SLA. assassinated the Oaktand superinicadent.of schools | decwu! His experiences were of broken familics, muoery and wounded his assistant. (Patty told Jack that Wolfe | scheo children, prison bars. He was an escaped cunvict, a | Th '- A ek a” ee a Md ty, " —— “" ee ay ey . vce Jinwnnced lc SLA sich Inve sail er paren at A Dower’ far “ornmuennpite that her rentler she WAS itt cn te tay and felt.” she pictunded to save hee. “Chey fh&tine. which wre peecious fa ptlicas] ye Chair otoncy gent power. ft shroud be obeiontes tt people whe dear't even care cfont Cher asia chikiren 2 eek t possible care ahont anyene else.” But Patty's astutement contained a final plea fa Stuven Weed, “f wish seu coukl he a cerorade,” she sitid, For theee years she had believed herself ia hove wits Wonk She haew hing to be Wweahewded and untomEnie, Bat she sit} sceeey hoped bed do something daring and loving. radical, Perhaps he'd find a way to join her. Cavett’. panel , Instead he spoke to her frum Dick C alse helped Cinque kidnap her, She said Weed was He stvled Gianself a” peitt Al frasn ene tiheoN. they Chiat Nest p. f ‘ avai ‘ alsirs in > Ciag . Batis