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The fupitives had only a few crumpled dollars left. , The rully scemed their best chance to Mad a benefac- tor. So Emily. wearing a tie-dyed shirt, cutoff jeans and a wig, melted into the crowd at Ho Chi Minh Park in Berkeley, the town that helped launch the Move- ment in the carly Sisties. Emily recognized several faces from the California prison reform groups that had served as the crucible for her and most of the origina} SLA members. But one of the speakers, Kathy Soliah, attracted her atten- tion. Solish, who had become friends with Atwood when both quit waitress jobs because they felt the uniforms were demeaning, told the crowd she now considcred herself part of the SLA. ¢ soe, , scorn ty . ‘Eto curiosity as ine weadlines jr: 1 “Patt} cart Joiny SLA” Oy sPatty Heips Rob Bank” «a? The media also was unable to muke up . Were they crazies? Or younz Wealsts bod wothian threweh the sesiem” Pid they 6. - an cueing guerrilla vinkknee in the Unit: Was Patty Hearst is tact an SLA soldier now Jack's own daubty about the vishility of ‘ gefurm began to erystalize in the conte: , debate over Patty Hearst and the SEA At. i he Nicked the television knob from one nels | show to another so he could monitor cu twist in the case. By curly May he was a wal clopedia on’ the subject. He began spending his days in the office York's book publishers. Jack was persuade: SLA symbolized the pent-up frustration of ? inemt. He wanted to write a book that piace. rags 1 . ! + ! ‘Afterward “Eniily approached “her-and “a few hours later the thrce fugitives were stashed in a small Berkeley fist, sipping tca and contemplating their next move. . “You can only stay here a few days. But maybe I can find someplace else you can £0." That hope soon fadeu. Other former SLA sympathizers wanted no part in'the new un- derground life. A few contributed moncy-— but not enough to buy another car. The fugi- tives were pale and weak from months of being away from sunshine and eating a diet of carryout hamburgers. Patty paced about the fiat, putting her arms around her, dark eyes staring out the windows, measuring each passer-by as a po- tential enemy. They feit it was only a matter of time before they would be discovered—in a few days they might be facing a police siege like their friends in Los Angeles. They kept their guns loaded, always within quick reach. Then after a weck at the Berkeley flat. a friend stopped by with an announcement: “I think I found someone who might heip you, His name is Jack Scott and he wants to write a book about the SLA.” ; a 2 On February 4th, 1974, while Patty Hearst was being kidnapped, Jack Scott was confronting his own private crisis. A few months earlier he had cousidered himself a Movement radical working successfully within the system. As Oberlin College's ath- Ietic director he had hired the schoot's first black coaches. opened its athletic facilities to poor people from the community and shocked the alumni by declaring his unconcern for football scares. He also had authored three controversial sports books and founded the Institute fo™ the Study of Sport and So- ciety (1SSS). The sports world regarded Scott as a daring and influcatist pioneer, : When Oberiin’s administration changed hands in early 1974, however, he had been forced: out of his job. He had dedicated nearly ten years to his work in sports. Now at age 32, he began to wonder if all that lime had been wasted. Jack and his wife, Micki, moved to un apartment in New York where they continued to tun the ISSS and Jack signed a contract to write his autobidgraphy for William Morrow Publishers. But Jack remained despondent. He stayed indoors, o-, a day. he:went out to corner newsstands end bought ‘cop- tes of the Timers, the Post and the Daily News. Judging hy the headlines, the only thing huppeoing was the adveot of an olf-th:.wall political miitia calling self the Syrmbuwenese Daberation Arnay. “SLA Kitaaps Newspaper Heites” “SLA Demands $200 Million in Food for Poor” watched television and slept 12 hours a day, Twice a. The SLA‘s rhctaric and tactics seenied to parody in a historical perspective. ? But the publishers weren’t interested”: . tics. A Doubleday editor told him he'd h.- people who knew how the SLA was formc could get a book contract, Then Jack’s book negotiations and hr watching were intercupted by live canicsa the six flaming deaths in Los Angeles. tie ! had been exccuted without a trial. Flushed by anger, Jack boarded aa a weeks later and headed for Berkeley. tic h “yeas there studying for his doctorate in psychology. He'd been a Goldwater supp first arrived but, like thousands of other radicalized. . 2 Now he sought out old Movement fricn ties to the undersround. 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