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ih ie ee Oe ie Te | ORNS eee pen ee ee ne cee oo - -™~ ep TE yn Borin ma a ~ ie 4 vo { QO dda CAR B5 @ a ; tsps ; j —Charles Bates, FBI agent a] 4 i 1 ste? ", - j spilling onto the set. Bomb-squad men a ns ! The amazing story of a in armored clothing ripped apart Mar- cord re - { 44-year-old TV newswoman | iiyn's desk in search of hidden ex-. - rv i : hej i ini her ae ao ‘ ; piesives. When Marilyn finished he Ee s ~ Vy A who Stayed two weeks broadcast at 8:00, one of the cops said, oa : ; _* } ahead of the police in her “Think very hard. Where would you ap t tans ' ° 3 revelations about the normaily be at 8:17?" - d j ; She said, “t don't have to think very i - Hearst kidnaping Case hard. Yd be in my car—on my way pan Petar eer ns ea one eee ree ane eer By Bill Davidson home.” Tne phone rang suddenly during the 7 P.M. news hour on KQED, San Fran- Cisco's public-letevision station, which Operaies out of a decrepit. formerly abandoned warehouse in the city’s in- Gusinal stums, if was exactly 7:12 on Feb. 18. At the time of the call, KOED's 44-year-old, deceptively-housewitely- looking No, 1 reporter, Mariyn Baker, was On the air with her iatest findings in the Aalrici:a Hearst kidnaping Case. News director Joe Russin wok the cai, and neard a muftied voice say, “This is the Svmbionese Libesation Army There's a plastic bomb—meant for Marilyn Baker. tt will go off at 8:17." Then, just the’ hum of the diat tone. in a matier of minules—wnile the 7 P.M. news conunucd—cops swarmed al over ihe ratty KOED news room—even Mardy Paker peuses a moment in San Francisco's South et Market District, a iess than Giivent @rea where ste has many ‘sieot-penple’ contacts The bomb-squad men rushed aut into the emply Street, where the hood of Liatityn’s car gaoed open. Inside. they found an ignition wire rnpced oul—seemingly ready to he at- tached {6 @ bomb. The cops, apparently, nad poured cut of the duiiding scon enough to intersupt the bomb instear in Mmid-fask. The police guard on Mrs. Gaker, put inio effect six Gays earlier, was in- creased. And that aight, her 26-year-old son Jeff, an. ex-marine, siood walch in her kwing toom with a loaded riffe. ~ Rh had ait begun across the Bay in Oakiand tas! Nov. 6, with the assassina- tion of Marcus Faster, Qakland’s black supenintenden| of, schools. The Sym- bionese Libera “imy Surfaced then lo Clam responsibilty tor the murder, anc ested snec its claim by mention- ing ine cyanize-tipaed builets that bad been used in the atiack on Fosier and his assisiant Robert Blackburn {who Wes wounded}. “] was busy elsewhere." Marilyn sad, “bul thal cyanide non- ~> r