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Gn April Mat she amneuoced (na vennouodig Ue hereafler she was an SJ. shdice, ate Chuogna te stry and fib” she said Hye pare danty pretendyst wasase ber, “Phry were Bars, “Phe Chiles. which are pacehuns tt {iheur] we Hair at Ley peupls qwhe ataay') 1 Ti power M0 shenfl be aby saes eel | be ee ae NA Nn ar A | a re | el eer pT Dhag i e rth gy Nalivie es ah euysy tev Peactioynt +3 hrwedh ¢ ahs patliaia hy Aftcars ge fran & eayi. bg dit Sate bs cd ther . oh} eK ae te Ae ne gy ge a pie ce meee at yt Re hee Sane er am Melia mtr Se me ae re that could fight that moncy was the power that came out of the barrel of a pun. Wo owas a polivical phitesophe that had bored her when Weed and his doctoral student friends had dis- cussed it in their Berkeley apartment. Bul Cinguc’s rough claguence was more persuasive than the asstract j tafk of pruduute students. The SLA‘s motives made sense. They wanted to redistribute the Hearst wealth to more needy poopie, Jt was her parents—and the economic class they represented —who were to blame for her misery and the misery of countless others. The SLA members encouraged hee radicclization, They hugged her, calted her sister and ended her loneliness. Putty’s conversion was as much cmotional 4s political, Seven wecks after she was kidnapped, Patty asked ta join the SLA. Despite their new respect for her, most of the SLA * soldiers were opposed. Patly would deprive then of mohilily because her face was so easily recngnizcd. She could not be counted on in emesgeacies. She did Hot have the querritla training the others had. But Cingue wanted her to become a comrade in arms, Cinque was the undispuicd leader of the SLA, His expericnces were of hroken fanvlics, hungry children, prison bars. He was an cseaped convict, 3 : show with words of condescension. Pasty was brains washed, Weed said. She would come to her senses if ; ls had a chance to be alone with her. “Frankly. Steven ts the one who sounds brain. washed,” Patty shot back in her next communique. “1 can’t believe those weird words he urered were fron his heart.” Weed was Patty's last tie to her former life. She had loved him, been faithful to him, pteaded for a show of understunJing. He'd betrayed her. He was, as Cinque had labeled him much earlier, an “apnist, seaint pit.” Patly began stecping with 23-year-old Willis Wolfe, whom she called Cujo. Of the three men in the SLA, Wolfe was the closest ta Patty in age and background, The son of a Peansyleania doctor. he'd attended private schools, been = of the schoal paper and golten ropghed up in anywar | demonstrations. He'd spent a summer working With | kids in Harlem, then spurned the Yale family tradition and enrollee at Berkeley,-where he'd roomed with SLA member Russell Little and met Cinque. He subsequentiy joined the SLA combat anit that assassinated the Oaktaind superintendent of schools and wounded his assistant. (Pairy iold Jack that Wolfe also helped Cinquc kidnap her. She said Weed was varsity awitnnicr, sports cduar, A are ——— ee even cate ahant their awit ebitde ‘. tatk about me he Eaeas dead stie suid G2 her sven! © coufdn’e porsihty Cate ahoul anyway els,” p they were wee . : Laped siatedient, “Eh can’t explain what it’s like.” Mei b+ fiat Pig's statgneal evntained & Gaal plea dhe f dar was sme; : : awiuler fal ithea te wearing Mack smd speaking of i Sigeen Weel, 77 sist son gould be 3 cororade.* je servers misto- ‘ : : Patty oo the past fomsg, Worse, her mathe bed ignored i wud. bor three sears shiz bad bebicved herself in hfe | PApeEs ucd ¢ . “oy ao SLA demand by accepling anethee appoinuucat | with Weed, She kuew him ta he weak-willed ad 4 wit acid and re (rom then goverper Ronald Teugan HSaMegent ol the f uafsnyatic. Put she sil seerctly hoped bei “ho” Unt read: “ft cE, University of Culitornaa. t orething ataring, and Jeving. He serled Alinself a ta carly Mi toa “] felt like T could kill ber when she ‘did that,” f radical. Perhaps he'd find = way te joie her. 1 Cingue’s her os 3 3 Panty said. “My own mother didn't care whethos dhe $. lastvad he spehe to her fron’ Dick Cavent's panel | Putly and the i } SLA shat me or nat.” - Mei ; By deerces her disilusionment with her ins? ‘ parents turned into sympathy for the SLA. wii! > Cinque was the first to percuive the change. acer. { He rewarded ber by allowing her to raum pre! shout the San Francisco apastinent that Esa p as ; served as the SLA headquarters Fora month aia ne, > “ Pat: ° she had been kept ina small “jsotation cham- 7 : Ma 4h, the ber arproximating a Son Quentin “hots.” York BES oie dt sc. : : She'd became weak and cauid barely stand .. a 4 the : up. To be able ta walk freely from one room AVY Wevrre —_ x TVs re) : . ~ another seemed the world’s greatest POR, Moke 28 OUt it iY ” 7 5 teasuce. © e Pout } ° Cinque tempered his frequcnt beratings - Fereeec pa: ‘ of her. Patty was urged 16 aticad Ue SLA's 2° Bay : daily potivicel study sessions, She was invited “e an’ 7 fo listen to the SLA national anthem, an a we: - 2 eetic jazz compositian of wind ard string on: . : that Cinque had setected. And she was fur- Sh i 7 - - nished with statistical evidence and quota- = . ins. ” ; fioas from Georce Jackson and Ruchell vate naa sh: Mazce that promoted her political devesop- MELCE CASCUUC th: . . ment. Léss than ten percent of the U.S. : f : population controls 90% of 11s wealth, Some aor ahs = pesple cat catered meats while others srarve. eee a : Some can afford fancy tawyers white other: "4 : rot in jail. Some live oif their inheritances . white others live in squator-and despair. fac i” : Patly was shown a long list of the Hearst wr a . . family heldings—nine newspapers, 13 mas- the af . azines, four TV and radio stations, a silver sig x . mine, 2 paper mil ond prime real estate, Her : act : parents clearly were part of the roling elite. th: con , - That's why they had quibbled over the ran d2 § " som money, That's why they had handed out tx: =. js eh . tuikey giblels instead of stcaks during the ja: - Og . food giveaway that the SLA had demanded. sh. i . Money meant everything to the economic fa: ff $s = class of her parents. And the only power lez: ducking ims. PaaRh T tures “eh Vilical efer- they made ; But ther ¢.- sutch tactics : “Whene 2° pick up the Mické s2:. order for 2 And right > armed stro Ul tw22 an effort tc Soldiers, “MS. hers of the “hitieat, “We Sedtts refur. ofthe SEA. The arc. defended t* intendent }’ because he’ schools. Fle The Scot: