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. nm ae : . 2. Prey ee eee D <n: . Se A nee a le ek BN tr me See Mlle al a Tr Nl tli lpg het Sai Ane. ~ @ A i Nt hm a tee on a ek te Pl eee . . ’ * - SEXUAL ACTIVITY OF GROUP STRESSED Hearst Not Coerced,. SLA’ Papers Say: wr yn: BY ROBERT KISTLER ear and BILL MAZLETT.. . 4 “pyteet Times Stait writers. «> Patricia Hearst was not strong- tarmed into adopting the revolutiona- “ry: ways of her Symo:onese Livera- «tion “Anny. captors—ineiuding the ‘terrorist. band’s multipartner sexual . Pprdctices—captured SLA writings tee disclosed. “Rather, the writings Say. Hearst's ‘fonversion to.the group that kid- ‘naped her was “forged from a politi- eal rather than personal outlook” and was ‘not the result of finding “some magical sexual satisiaction. or Ge- - ¢ause® of a strong personal attach- ent to.an individual." = The SLA writings. part of a mass of documents and written material Seized al the San Francisco house avhere fugitive SLA members Wil iar_and Emily Harris were arrested Sept 18, also disclose: “That Hearst, “partly due to her “own ‘initiative, but also because of ‘our growing love and respect for her.” was inviled to join n_freely in "nonexclusive sexual actevities of the group. even before she became 3 full- fledged member of the SLA. , e=That, even while they were sub- jecls of onc of the most intense man- hunts in the history of the Umited States. women members of the smaii band were acutely concerned about maic-dominated “sexism” in the SLA, fee a ae TR ua 22—That,. in .orded..ta. “preserve “fee ‘minist self-determination.” women in, the SLA fought successtully ° to “wsmash the dependencies created oy monogamal {sic} personal sexual rela- tionships ee Jn the cell", ° le The writings found i in the Harrises*: | apartment, portions of which were’ ‘obtained by The Times, provice the, “first. documented view of" what. lifes ‘inside tre il ‘like, . ae And the high degree of importance SLA memcers placed upon ¥anocs, forms of sexual activity a3 a primary expression of their rev olutionary tifee style. ; he The wrilings: obtained” ‘by! The Times include what appears to be a ‘portion of a series of ‘answers, to questions sudrmitted-to the SLA‘ by an unnamed person. ‘similar to tne ‘kind of interrogatories a writer mught “submit sn preparauon for a Doon. °-.: Other writings obtained inciude a handwritten discourse on the kines of problems female members of the SLA’ faced as -"ferninist freedom fighters" and a typewntten measage, spparently written by an SLA'mea- ber to Patty. * eet BG * Veteran investi gators believe much ‘of the material on feminist radicalism Please Turn to Page 2A. Col. i vo at ?. : : ~ raed ne 4: . LSA.TA AVES tof, 7] 2435 abe