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HEARNAP — Part 29
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papers and ether pasapherssha io a bubrth fitted
With acid tab eseresart Bene gde ae apeak qrainte uf sign
that road: “bore ato, pup Bocvar fash putte ay i.
In carly May they moved again, driving south to
Apyelvs, On May [6th
Patty and the Hurrises tack the SLA san ta shap at
Mel's Sportiag Gueuds store in the suburb of
SS Tagkewoot, Will walked through the aisles
HI Eat r with frequent ghinces over his shoulder, i
ratty a: SO 0 fra 1G a habit oF Sctan- nervous tin-ewtf thata security guard misinter- JP
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“a the group aod ieft the SLA wan in the hands
of Les Angeles police.
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Patty: was brain-
washed. Weed said. She wind come to her senses if
he had a chance to be alone with her,
“Frankly, Steven ts the one who sounds brain-
washed,” Patty shot back in her next communique. “I
cant believe those weird words he uttered were from
his heart.”
Weed was Patty's last, tie to her former life. She
hin loved him, been faithful to him. pleaded for a
show of understanding. He'd hetraved her. He was,
“AECist,
sexist pic.”
Patt, began sleeping with 23-year-old Willie Wolle,
_ Whom she called Cujo. Of the three men in the SLA,
* Wolfe was the clogest to Putty in age and background.
’ The son ofa Pennsylvania doctor,
+ PFIVIIe cnt been a virsity swintmcr, sports editor
he'd attended
of the schebl paper and gotten roughed up tn antiwar
demensirations, He'd spent a summer working with |
Lids in Harlem, then spurned the Yale faniily tradition
‘and enrojled at Berkeley, where he'd roomed with
SLA member Russell Little and met Cinque.
fe subsequently joined the SLA combat unit that
| assassinated the Onkland superintendent of schaats
and wounded his assistant. (Patty told Jack that Wolfe
zlso helped Cinque kidnap her. She said Weed was
“ah et ne
psychoogicaliy ready
!
|
} ducking imaginary bullets.
and Mizmoan Soltvsik had fled. But they
were cornered and kilicd in a bungalow
oniy biocks away.
“Neither Cujo nor [ had ever loved an
individual the way we loved each other.”
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of YO a5 42 he said in her taped communique followin =
: be ? as she ! P q & :
sg + Afterwards she clung to the Harrises and
ca a ie e o eate ort thea eh eee shared their love, But her pain over Wolfe's i
yO ” tcath was a long time in healing. :
: nae Gi Pou - iO Suen race Peal Jack's co: -rsation with Patty on the
2, ¥ os farmhouse porch renewed his interest in! . |
; %%3 tre wire mre, ° ‘Vike ayeayey pe H- wrung an SLA boox. The fugitives okayed — .
the idea and werk beean. But soon the two
sides were locked in deep political acrimony. :
Jack was irritated by the military drills |
that had become a part of the fusitives”
daily routine. They spent 30 minutes taking
target practice with 3 BB gun they’d found
in the barn. And they practiced on the make- of
shift obstasie course they'd set up in the
farmhouse. They crept under chairs and
leaped across the dining-room table while
Patty alo had a hobit of scanning the New York
Fines with a teletup- pon, x-ing out pistures of poe -
heal enemies. Since the fugitives had no weapons
they made no plans t@ carry oul political executions, -
But they did nor rufc out the chance they'd return to
such Lictics in the future.
“Whenever pevple feet psychologically ready to
pick up the cun, thes should do it,” Emily argued.
Micki suid she understand but couldn't agree. “fn
order for revolution to succeed, it needs mass support.
And right now the masscs of people do not support
armed struggle.”
Bill tricd to minimize such political differences in
an eTort 10 rreruit the Scotts as fellow underground
svldiers, “We'd Jike vou fo join us 3s permanent mem-
bers of the SLA.” Bui’s tone was personal, not po-
litical. “We caf work out our differences.” Rut the
Scotts refused. Jack was adaman:. He wanted no part *
of the SLA if they were going fo rearm themselves. ‘
The argument continued fur days. Bill and Emily
defeniied the assassinstion of Oakland school Super:
intendent Marcus Foster. They considered him a-pig
because he'd brought in cops to patrol Oakland's
schools. He deserved to dic, they said,
The Scotts contended that the Foster [Coar. on 761
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