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THE WASHINGTON STAR-NEWS 3/19/74 PAGE A-8 ear hs STATE a: Ase Offer of Rewards. pyre? Pe tary £7TR RES We ey Disavowed. by Hearst * The San Francisco Exam iner is advising newspapers * that fictitious letters bear-. ing the name of Randolph A. Hearst, father. of kid- “mapped: “wictim : ‘Patricia; Hearst, have been sent out. The letters are ‘‘com- pletely false,"" the Examin-’ er said of the messages, which purport to offer re- d k k - waters for ki illing the. id | ion food distribution Pro- . napers. A photocopied letter with’ the printed signature, Ran- - -dolph A. Hearst, reached - the Star-News today in-an - envelope with a Washington i postmark and “immediate . release'’ imprinted in the wpper left-hand corner.: fires. " The letter offers $20, 000 to” "any person or group “who There was | nO. return: ad: - ” = such outrages has not domé “kills ‘any member of the Symbionese Liberation Army,’ the mysterious group that has claimed re- Sponsibility for the kidnap- ing of Miss Hearst. The let- _ ter also offers $100,000 for the killing of ‘‘one of the three individuals who car- ried out the kidnaping.”’ Miss Hearst, 20, was kid- raped on Feb. 4. A $2 mil- - gram is being conducted in California in her father’s attempt. to meet ‘ransom demands. . ’ Hearst, editor; of the Examiner, i is represented in the disavowed letter as stat- ing that ‘@he government whose duty it is to defend civilized humanity. against so,” and vowing to avenge) his 3 daughter. :<~ . ENCLOSURE -— ran ear : “ye = i. Coane “Ns _