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“patty is now displaying in her new identity of tanya a side of herself i never know existed to this degree, although i have always been aware of a certain hesitancy of hers to embrace the hearst family name and that bastion of conservatism with which it is usually associated. the new ‘tanya’ reflects in an extreme form the patty i've always known; a young woman open to new ideas, humanistic, energetic and independent. "i must make it unswervingly clear that iam in total opposition to the actions taken by the sla. i find these actions horrifying and unjustified in view of the overall society of which i am a member. this is not china of the thirties or the forties. this is the twentieth century united states, the most sophisticated social, political and technological country in the world. the sla has not chosen their revolutionary action accordingly, but rather as it they were in pre-world war ii china. therefore, they have failed to achieve their goals. “my main concern is for patty's safety. i feel that is she does not want her life to be in jeopardy, she will choose a course of action which allows her to live, not to die. whether or not she wants to or even can remain in this country as a revolutionary spokeswoman after her more than certain arrest is no longer her choice alone. it has become obvious that in this country, she cannot pursue the identity and the activity of a south american jungle guerilla and survive. in the finality of this current situation, patty, i am confident, will have cone what patty has wanted to do. she will have chosen to be whom patty has chosen to be. oy,