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Rut while in New York tie Scntts suught ont | Wondy Yeshinara. another fugitive wheve triends had freetype das ck find che SYA survicuts in Derketey, Wendy had cane wniterground iv 1922 after bees accused in the hembing of a Navy ROTC building in Deckeley, She had been bern in a ULS. concentration caip— tke many Japanese fansilies, Bers had bres interned for much of World War t--had atcaded the Cati- fornia College of Aris and Crafts and had worked 38 a waitress. Through nunual friends the Scotts ar- ranged a moecliag. Weady explained that she was working aS a wailress again and was hoping to save S£G0 by the cad of the sum-~- mer $0 she could return to the West Coast, Jack asked her te move jato the fasmhouse and offered to pay her ihe $509. She agreed and s9on becane a senior adviser and com- pasion to the SLA fugitives. . The Scolts (ried lo provide everything the fugilives wanted. Micki had stacked 1} 1 i ae 408 ee oe wwe cw ng we dL oe Ca ee a ne house with food, books and oiher supptics. , When more was needed shz someiimes ac- companied Emily on shopping ftips te Scranton. The fugitives cisa nad naw dis- guises. Patty's hair hed been cat to alyct a bayish look, Beth Bill and Emily had light- ened their dark hair with red lints. _ But the fugilives sill word about inex pacted visitors. So Jack tried to recruit one other person whom Patty and the Matrisss could contact in emergencies. In carly July | fhe brought out Jay Weiner, a sportswriter friend nad sunimer intern from the Long Is- land newspaper Newsday. Jack had only himed about his farmhouse guests and ' ‘Weiner was not prepared to mect members of the FBI's Most Wanted List, Weiner smiled when be was introduced to “Judy,” “Susan,” “Alan” and “Joan” and pretended rot 10 know who they were. Afler supper Jack took Weiner for a walk foward the ponds and began to explain th: situation. “1 don't want to know what's going on,” Weiner replied. “{ don't want to get invalved.” Weiner agrecd to keep his vist a secret but Ong ae pera Cerna ee germ Suen Ma tg Te Ae wet + SPR LSTA FE RR A RY ie geet ataduitdt SPT Bice Dan tu Mew York? Teal te 84 puile away hea’ Gat scomed dark, Ve cuolitn't ce any’ pohes flollighis ar ced) ashen, As he guratd onte Une dict cunt the caia unagusced a fathowig speed, J - ! SUA sigliting was i tists. Padice say that a secretiry i gho five alage was inistabcoly ieatied ay Pally { Ytvarst. This has been auoiher false Toad ta the bya ee . - “ss . : . 4% . " A oactuety, Was owe wos. The te t a wanes Rugewd saab Laueslecad, . | “ia , pfs cmb of June the Scotis were at ease with ; 7 rath 2 awd Hily. Vhe ently squeibte was the | ; : antaunt of line the Sculls were spending at the Tan, , 2 ‘ tack anil Alichi Gad decided te resteme werhing a few | ‘y ° 1s days Gish week at (SSS so they could s2e thea New } ; ‘} . York friends wiltwal inviting (heute dee forint. te: \ tt enuse it Was a sivehuar ruta trip, they upsichdy dived + eee of a daily caurmadc aid the fugitives senchinigs were ts a ’ Jefe by themselves for dayy ala Gung, + ob LTH geecteal fie quizzically. “You took fike yor got cut of prison.” ‘awa radio announcements, Everybody smiled and | patted Jack on the back. The camaraderie carried over FR te for the atissine heiress.” ro, ; we tat bee ee prose agente? Or sundb Be buen + oct ketey iis finy odd rotened aging the seecleratee, Ity Hise what was Laypenian. Femara | shat ined jeviat, ftet peatcd sep From Los Angeles, word has hesn received Uist the Sack’s heurl Mapped haminuesiag, Out bis face teas Havhea a6 he catered the farethguse. “Good Gad” sd | you...2” Wolfe be Jack slumped to 8 chaie amd totd his stery of the a ® at ¥ mica Ed% 7 th ws oe 3. Od Peopic. - Waa t . aS PAanSOm A € G 5 a F a eer Cute RRO i sat worth. ee Eee ld the episode left everyone disagpointed. A few d3ys later a local fix-it man, hired by the Jandlord, stopped in to mow the weeds and grass around the house. Micki was there to grect him white the others—wha were not lisicd as tenants-~scanip- ered out of view. Micki chatted amiably and hetped the man yank out weeds, taking the opportunily to reseue an indigenous three-foot marijuans stalk that the fugitives had found and were planning 10 harvest. The cannabis supplied them with an sdequaie num- ber of joints since they scldom tokcd or ¢ronk, a security precaution based on the SLA‘s longstanding distrust of drugs. In conversations with the Scots the fugitives explained that heavy drag users, in the jude- ment of the SILA, usually hecame paranoid enotists. Jack and Michi had avoided discussing the issue of how far they would po lo protect the SLA survivors. Bit one evening while Jack was driving w the farm a yadig news flash suddenly contranicd bim with the ee ee fee we MT ee Fae Semen + OB te Da A, * ~ 7 . ditemama. . . “We have a report that the SLA has been located. > ' Police have surrounded their hideout: and Patty . : Vearat’s parcuts are being flown ta the scene to picad . . H with their daughter for her surrender. Keep tuned H fur further details.” ‘ ‘ ‘ The fugitives were alone at the house. Jack : ' awajlowed hand. His hands jillerbugged an the whey! t ? i 10 the [ollowing days. Jack was asked to teach a basic set of exercises. He Cushioned weights frani concrete blocks for muscie building and led the fugitives Osu oitfs, zs They pret. l LEECARUAS + { into the te able cet. fost tra:- tat Gis Wel: 1974, "the - ee ! rant Line abe : bO hawt face. Weed cr ™. lhe footie. a. " through wind spriats to testore their strength and slamina. Races were held between 2 rickety barn and a finish i line marked by a chitd's rusting yellaw swing Set. " Patty w2s surprisingty swifs, Jack, once 3n euntanding | w3s suc: sprinter himself, was hard pressed to ovteun her. He “Yo... had begun to like Patty. She enjoyed joking around | “They + and displayed an cxubcrance that had been impossible | kaees ? to imagine two wecks before. Her snappishnyss had Potty dissipated. payors She stil chided Jack about the political irectevancy | Ble b2:! of sparts and his work at the 1SSS. But she exercised But daity under his rigoroas tutelage. During one hard | Kites i run she stepned in a gophece hole and crashed fonward amd she on a twisted ankle. She limpal back to the house | Se F. banging onte Jack's shoulter, There he massyged and | bosese taped the ligaments, A sinsilar iajucy had cnifd Jack's] much : athletic career and cuined his shet at the Olympics fizurest whea he was Patty's age. * S10 r:. Patty spool the afternoon sealing’ onthe parch. Jack 7 could : stayeW with her und they began Lo tatk about Vaty’s | sick 35: , convessivn ta the SLA. : : le ar : ° . .- and ter ~