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D es Moines, Iowa, Tuesday Morning, April 19 , 1977

TH E WEATHER - Chance ofshower s an d pos sible t hunde r s tormtoday. High in upper 70s.Slightch a n ce of shower s tonight andpos s ible t hunder s torm Wednesday.L ow t o n i g h t in m i d - 5 0 s . Hi g hThur sday in 70s. Sunrise 5 :29; sunse t6 : 5 9 . Details : 6B.

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5 D A Y S U R G E DStudy unit predictspostal rates to soar

WASHINGTON, D.C . (AP) - Maildeliveries should be cut back to fivedays a week and taxpayer subsidieso f th e Postal Service increased, buteven t hese act ions will not keeppostal rates from soaring, a f edera ls tudy commission said Mond ay.

Th e Commission on Postal Servicesaid mai l ing a f irs t class let ter willcost about 28 cents by 1985 if mai lservice continues on its presentcourse

It said th e f irs t -class ra te can be"held" to around 22 cents by 1985 ifr e d u ce d d e l i ve r i e s an d h i g h e r

taxpayer subsidies ar e adopted. Th erate was 6 cents in 1971 when th ePostal Service was established.

Th e commission told Congress andPresident Carter] th e cost of deliver-ing the mail w« l go up rapidly noma t t e r wh a t th e Postal Service does.

Congress Debate Seen

Th e report is expected to set off adebate in Congress on w h a t to doa b o u t th e d e f i c i t - r i d d e n PostalService. There ha s been considerableopposition in Congress to previoussugges t ions to el imina te Sa turdaydelivery or to increase subsidies.

The commission said public opinionsurveys it ordered found " tha t th epublic is willing to forego some postalse rvices in order to lessen r a t eincreases an d l imit congressional ap -propriations."

It recommended:

• Saying $412 million per year bycutt ing deliveries to five days perwe e k , p r ob a b l y b y e l i m i n a t i n g

Saturday service. Window service atpost offices still would be availableon th e sixth day.

• I n c r e a s in g the s u b s i d y bychanging it f rom 10 per cent of the1971 postal service budget to 10 percent of the current year's budget an dby giving th e Postal Service aone-time $625 m illion subsidy to helppa y existing debts.

Since the Postal Service budget iscon t i n u a l l y r i s i n g , p e g g i n g th esubsidy to the current year's spendingwould increase th e fund ing . Fo re x a mp l e , th e se rvice wou l d h a vereceived $2.1 billion instead of $1.6billion this past fiscal year if thesubs idy ha d been pegged to thecurrent budget instead of the 1971budget .

• D e c i d i n g w i t h i n two y e a r s ifelectronic message services shouldpar t i a l ly r e p l a ce t r a d i t i on a l le t te rservice.

• E s t a b l i s h i n g s t r i c t l i m i t s on

when th e Postal Service could close arural post office to save money."The commission found th e public

generally satisf ied with postal servicebu t concluded that th e Postal Servicefaces a foreboding financial fu tu re ifit continues on its present course,"th e report said.Electronic Competi t ion

"First-class mai l , th e largest an dmost lucrative of all mai l classesfaces major competit ion from elec-tronic communications systems. As aresult, a pat t e rn of increased ratesan d costs f o l l owe d b y decl i n ingvolume will increase th e financialburden," th e seven-member commis-sion said.

Th e commi s s i on c r i t i c i z e d th ePostal Service for failing to quicklydecide whether to offer electronicmessage service, in which messagesare sent electronically between postoffices and a computer printout of themessage delivered with th e next day ' s

mail .

Ankeny actson 12-month

school ideaB y C H A R L E S B U L L A R DRwUftr stiff wrntr

Th e Ankeny School Board took thefi rst s tep Monday night toward t hepossible creation of year - round ele-mentary schools .

T h e f i v e - m e m b e r b o a r d u n a n i -mously voted to direct school dis tr ictadmini s t r a tor s to "look into th eme ch a n i c s of i mp l e me n t i n g y e a r -round schools in Ank eny."

The board action was in response toa s even-month s tudy by a 35-memberci t i zens ' commi t t ee , which r ecom-mended t ha t one of the suburb ' s fourelementary schools be placed on ay e a r - r o u n d s c h e d u l e to t e s t th econcept.

Year- round elementary schools ar ebeing considered as one m ethod ofdealing with the school dis tr ict ' s in-

cr eas ing enrol lment . The com mi t t eee s t i ma t e d y e a r - r ou n d op e r a t i onw o u l d i n c r e a s e t h e c a p a c i t y ofAnkeny's elementary schools by 20 to30 pe r cent an d postpone th e need foranother elementary school.

Ankeny , wi th an e n r o l l me n t of4,230, is one of the few schooldistricts in the state that s t i l l face theproblem of incr eas ing number s ofs tudents .

Th e r apid growth in Ankeny ha splaced a heavy t ax bu rden on thecommuni ty ' s proper ty owner s , an dth e board is searching for ways toforestall the construction of anotherelementary school.

"We've had 10 or 11 bond issues inthe last 15 years ," said Dr. L. R.Gray, board president . "We hope wecan get by wi thou t building a newbuilding every year ."

The board a l so di r ect ed s chooldistr ict administrators to investigatetwo other alternatives to constructing

a new elementary school.Th e f i r s t i s r ear r anging e lemen-

t a ry , junior h igh and s enior highgrades in order to sh i f t s tudent s in toth e upper tw o levels an d relieve ele-men tary school overcrow ding. Und erthis proposal, the four elementaryschools would contain kindergartenth rough f i f t h grade, the two juniorhighs would become "middle" schoolscon t a i n i n g s i x th t h r o u g h e i g h t hgrades, and the high school wouldhouse ninth t h rough twelfth grades.

The other a l t e rna t ive would be tokeep grade levels as t hey are but busmore ch i ldr en to correct th e maldi s -t r i b u t i on of e l e m e n t a r y p u p i l s .N o r t h w e s t E l e me n t a r y S ch oo l isovercrowded w hi le other e lemen taryschools ha ve space available.

If none of the three alternatives isadopted, Gray said the board will befaced with a decision to build anotherelementary school "within a year ortwo."

Under th e year - round proposal, ele-mentary pupi ls would go to school th esame number of days — 180 — butthe school year would be divided intofour parts . Pupils would go to school45 d a y s an d t h e n h a ve 15 d a y sva ca t i on . Th i s cy c l e w o u l d berepeated four t imes.

E l e m e n t a r y p u p i l s w o u l d b edivided into four groups. Th e f i r s tgroup would s t a r t school, 15 dayslater the second group would begin,30 days later t he t h i rd group woulds t a r t and 45 days l a t e r th e fourthgroup would begin and the f irs t groupwould go on vaca t ion .

Th e board said Northwest Elemen-t a r y S ch oo l i s the mos t l i k e l ycandida te for conver s ion to year -round operation but it is not air-con-ditioned. Th e commi t t ee estimated itwould cost $82,000 to $100,000 to addair conditioning o the school.

Only one of Ankeny ' s four elemen-tary schools — Ter r ace — is air-con-

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R E S P O N S E SFew appear happy ,

as interests clash

From The Register's Wire ServicesWASHINGTON, D.C. - President

C a r t e r ' s e n e r g y p l a n d r e w coolresponses f rom organized labor, con-serva t ive groups , some Democra tsan d other s — in shor t th e s a m emine f i e l d o f wi d e l y va r y i n g geo-g r a p h i ca l an d ideological i n t e r e s t st h a t frustrated the Ford and Nixonenergy programs .

House Speaker Thomas O'Nei l l(Dem., Mass.), predicting months ofe mo t i on a l d e b a t e a n d p o l i t i c a lconfl ict, said energy "is the toughestissue we' ll take up because i t is soparochial."

A s an e x a m p l e , th e e x p e c t e dreques t for an increase in the gasolinet ax as par t of t he package dr ew fi ref rom Repub l i cans and labor leadersMonday.

Opponents of the gas tax boost viewit as d i s c r i m i n a t i n g a g a i n s t t h o sewith low incomes an d those living inr u r a l a n d s u b u r b a n a r e a s . C i t y

dwel le r s , w h o usual ly are no t asdependent on automobiles for trans-portation, were seen as not beingh a r me d as mu ch .

"I am unalterably opposed to a gastax, if in fact i t is offered," saidSenator H oward Baker (Rep. , Tenn.) ,th e Senate minority leader .

Such a tax,he said, "would dis-cr imina te agains t states l ike mine,wh e r e people rely on cars for theirl ivelihood, and in f a vo r of u r b a nareas ."

Rober t Georgine, president of theBuilding and Construction Trades De-par tment of t he AFL-CIO , said of agasoline tax increase, "W e mu s t no thi t hardes t t hose with the lowestincomes."

"High gasoline taxes would be ar egres s ive t ax on t he poor , andt h e r e ' s l i t t l e e v i d e n ce t h a t h i g hgasoline prices would promote con-servation," Georgine added.

George Meany, president of theA F L - C I O , e x p r e s s e d r e s e r va t i on sabou t the President 's energy package."W e have to t ake a good look at w h a tt h o s e p r o p o s a l s m e a n t o t h eAmer ican people and to the Americ anworker," he said. "They are going tobe quite complicated, and I think weshould look at the m, not only for wha tt hey mean to our fu ture , bu t w h a t doth ey mean tomor row. Wh a t do theyme a n in the way of jobs?"

Meany had previously cri t icized thePresident 's decision to end fundingfor t h e n u c l e a r b r e e d e r r e a c to r .Georgine called the reactor decision"sheer folly."

Representa t ive A l Ullman (Dem.,Ore.), chai rman of the House Waysand Means Commi t t ee , where t axbills originate, said of the gasoline taxproposal, "there's always been s t rongopposition and alway s will be."

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REACTION

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Patty Hearst: A s baffling as everBy LACEY FOSBURGH

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HILLSBOROUGH, C A L I F . - Sheweighs 100 pounds and s tands 5 feetof f th e ground. Sh e floats inside a sizefive dress and is said to be f loating inconfusion s o m ew he r e b e t we e n t h eages of 19 and 23.

Sh e sits in her room wi th th ec u r t a i n s a l w a y s d r a w n , as i fsomebody was ill or dying t her e . Sheplays with he r hair, files he r nails an dreaches over to touch he r toes a dozentimes a day for exercise. She put s oncoat af t e r coa t of nail polish, indifferent shades of frost and peach,and looks through magazines, findingdresses t ha t

she'dlike

tobuy. Every

morning sh e goes to her jewel ry an ddecides which of her 10 to 15 lit t leturquoise r ings sh e will wear thatd a y .

She usual ly chooses s ome wh e r ebe tween th ree and six, and will oftena d d , for good measure , other rings ofg a rn e t an d gold . Sh e ea ts w h i t epowdered doughnuts an d potato chips,and sh e likes to talk about th e boysshe used to know. She s ays her

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favori te mus ic is f rom "Carousel,"and she want s a date book, pret ty an dexpensive, so she can write down allth e things sh e does.

R i f c b t now she only has a l i t t le

two-by three-inch pad t ha t came f r eewith a purchase in a stationery store.Th e pages ar e nearly blank becauset her e is very li t t le that sh e does, an dwh a t there is — "lunch wi th Nan,""lunch with Trish," is , af ter all , quiteeasy to r emember .

S h e g oe s to a p s y c h i a t r i s tregularly, and one of the f irs t thingssh e did after leaving jail wa s ma k e ana p p o i n t me n t a t M r . Lee's beau typarlor on Jones Street. There, she hadhe r eyelashes dyed black. Sh e lovesthe at tention sh e gets and is said toregard herself as not unlike a littlemovie star.

If sh e forgets about th e curtains

an d pulls t hem open, he r mother ma ycome by and say,"Now Pat ty , youkeep them closed. I'm telling you.Don' t open them. It's not safe, youhear? Somebody's going to shoot aty o u . Y ou hear?"

"Yes, Mom,"she may answer.

Rings selected, nails in order , anankle-length l avender plaid jumper

HEARST

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'Your father always has been very good at

conserving energy.'

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Aide: It's clear wehave a problem

By GEORGE A N T H A N01Ttw Register's W ashington Bureau

WASHINGTON, D.C . - Ass i s t an tAgri cu l tu re Secre t a ry Carol Foremansaid Monday "it's clear we h a ve aproblem" with meat packing plant swhich have long-s t anding def i cienciesin s a n i t a t i on p r oce d u r e s

and sheadded, "I suspect we mu s t be muchtougher with incorrigibles."

Foreman also said that U.S. De -p a r t m e n t of A g r i c u l t u r e ( U S D A )officials who admini s t e r Jhe pur chaseo f ground beef for the national schoollunch program have been directed tos tudy the possibili ty of rewrit ing de-partment regulation or of seeking afede ra l law to give them a uthor i ty toreject bids from companies with long-s tand ing problems .

Sani t a t ion Problems

Foreman was comment ing on areport in The Register Sunday t h a t aWisconsin comp a n y which t h i s yearsupplied mu ch of the ground beef forth e school lunch program had persis t-en t and serious sanitation problems.Th e reports cite Packerland PackingCo. of Green B ay, Wis .and some of itsaf f i l ia ted companies.

S ome USDA r e p o r t s c o n t a i nwarn ings t ha t t he company may havebeen producing contaminated or adul-terated meat. On e report notes t h a t a

PLANTS

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G R E E N B A Y , WI S . ( A P ) - Ano f f i c i a l of Packer land Packing Co. ,w h i c h s u p p l i e s m u c h o f t h ehamburger consumed in t he na t ionals ch oo l l u n c h p r o g r a m , d i s p u t e sreports that i ts operating conditionsar e unsani t a ry .

"Rest assured th at unequ ivocallyany meat des t ined for human con-s u m p t i o n l e a v i n g a n y P a ck e r l a n dplant is wholesome," Norval Dvorak,assis tant to the president of the meat-packing f i rm , s a id M onday.

" L on g - S t a n d in g Pattern"

The Des Moines Register reportedSunday t ha t t he U.S. Agr i cul tur e De-par tment ' s inspect ion s ect ion h adf i les of " h u n d r e d s of d ocu me n t s "w h i c h i n d i c a t e a " l o n g - s t a n d i n gpattern of san i tary deficiencies andquestionable operating pract ices" atPacker land and its affi l iates.

T h e R e g i s t e r s a i d g o v e r n m e n tr ecords s howed t he USDA b o u g h tmor e th an 60 mi l l i on p ou n d s ofground beef f rom Packer land and itsallied plants for the current school

M E A T

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S A C R I F I C E - O R

C A T A S T R O P H E 'His plan to rely onhigher prices, penalties

From Ttie Register's Wire ServicesWASHINGTON, D.C . - President

Car t e r Monday nigh t wa r n e d t h a t t h ec o u n t r y f a ce s a " n a t i o n a l ca t a s -t rophe" unles s it r esponds wi th th e" m o r a l e q u i v a l e n t o f war" b yaccept ing an energy program basedon s t r ingent Conserva t ion , h igherprices an d penal t i es fo r was t e .

In a televised address from th eOval O f f i c e of th e Whi te House ,Car t e r del ivered w h a t he called "anunpleasant t a lk" in which he said th enation wil l begin to run shor t ofenergy supplies in the 1980s unless i tchanges i ts "wasteful" use of fuels .

T h e s p e e c h w a s d e l i b e r a t e l ysomber to p r e p a r e public opinion fora major energy program tha t Car t e rwill present to Congres s Wednesdaynigh t in anot her televised address .Th e p r og r a m will cal l fo r h i g h e rpr i ces , h igher t axes and an end tounlimited incr eases in energy con-sumption .

Goa l s , P r i n c ip l e sDetails of the p r og r a m will be

unve i l ed Wednesday ; C a r t e r u s e dMonday ' s a d d r e s s to ci te s p e c i f i cgoals to be achieved and the princi-

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pies used to fo rmula te hi s program. I twas the opening round of a publ i crelations blitz designed to drum upsuppor t for the conserva t ion e th i cbefore he takes his case to Congress .

To me e t t h e e n e r g y ch a l l e n g e ,Car t e r se t seven goals to be met byth e nat ion by 1985:

• T o r educe th e growth of energydemand f rom 3.5 to 4 per cent a yearto less th an 2 per cent .

• To cut gasol ine demand 10 percent below cu r r en t l evel s .

• To cut oil i mp o r t s , cu r r e n t l yclose to 9 million bar r e l s a d a y , downto about 6 million bar r e l s a day .

• To e s t a b l i s h a s t r a t e g i cpet roleum reserve of one bi l l ionbar r e l s , enough to keep th e nationgoing through at least a s ix-month n-te r rup t ion o f petroleum supplies .

• To increase coal production byabou t two-thirds, to mor e t h a n on ebillion tons a year .

• To insula t e 90 per cent ofexisting Ameri can homes and all newbuildings.

• To use solar energy in more t han2.5 million houses.

A d r a f t of Whi te House proposalsshows t ha t Car t e r is seriously consid-e r i n g a " s t a n d b y " g a s o l i n e ta xr each ing as high as 50 cents a gallon,taxes rang ing f rom $412 to $2,500 ongas-guzzling automobi les an d pr i ceincreases on oil and n a t u r a l gas ingeneral.

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Senate eyes $60 milliontax rise for employersBy J O H N H Y D EfUdsler St*H Writer

I o w a ' s e m p l o y e r s f a c e a $ 60million tax incr ease if a bill to r e formth e s t a t e ' s employment s ecur i ty t r us tf u n d becomes l aw.

Sponsors of the measure , which willbe debated on the floor of the IowaSenate Wednesday, say i t is needed tokeep th e f u n d f rom going b a n k r u p t .

Th e f u n d , which is used to payu n e m p l o y m e n t c o m p e n s a t i o nbenefi ts, cur r en t ly i s r ece iving about|98 million a year and i s paying out

$ 1 1 0 million.At th e mome n t , th e f u n d has aba l ance o f s l i gh t l y l es s t han $5 0million and is paying out about $3.2million pe r week .

"The f u n d is going broke," saysWa te r l o o D e m o c r a t Fred N ol t i n g ,wh o w i l l h a n d l e th e bill on the Senatefloor.

" We 'v e n e ve r h a d t o f a c e th ep r o b l e m b e c a u s e e m p l o y m e n t i nIowa ha s been s table. Th e reserve inth e t r us t f u n d ha s a lways bcea enough

t o c h u g t h r o u g h a s i x - m o n t hrecession.

" B u t it b e ca me a p p a r e n t in 1975t h a t t her e was no way to escape bank-rup tcy unless we did someth ing ."

If th e bill becomes l aw, employer snex t year would pay an es t imated$ 1 5 9 million into th e t r us t f u n d .

Red Oak Repub l i can C a l v i n O.Hu l t m a n , th e bill's l eading opponent ,admi t s th a t something needs to bedone, but not what Nolting wa n t s to

do.Th e bill, Hultrnan argues , is noth ingless th an a genera l ta x increase.

"The f a c t of the matter is ," he says,"those taxes go right back on theconsumer . You just can't pick $159million out of thin air .

"If you don't do something, the fundw i l l go broke and the feds will comein an d establish our rales . Uuiortu-

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over a r u f f l e d w h i t e dress. P a t t y -broke her da i ly routine M o n d ay b y ;

w his p erin g "nolo contenders" - no :

contest — to s t a t e ch ar ges of a ssa u l t Iw ith a d ead l y w eap o n an d a r m e d \

robbery.I n r e t u r n , n i n e o t h e r f e l o n y i

c h a r g e s , i n c l u d i n g k i d n a p i n g , a r e |expected to be dropped.

Th e ch ar ges s t emmed f r o m aShootout at a suburban Lo s Angeles i

sporting goods store, three mo n thsa f t e r P a t t y h ad been dragged h a l f -

n a k e d a n d s c r e a m i n g f r o m th ea p a r t m e n t s h e s h a r e d w i t h h e rboyfriend by member s of the S ym -bionese Liberation A r m y . j

Two SLA companions, W i l l i a m and )Emi ly Har r i s , wer e found guil ty lastSept ember of ch ar ges in the s a m eincident an d w ere sentenced to 11year s to l i f e in prison.

Parents Solemn

He r f a t h e r , R a n d o l p h , an d m o t h e r .Catherine, sat solemnly with specta-tors in the cr owded cour tr oom. He rch i ef l aw yer , F. Lee Bai ley , wa sn ' tthere.

Her o t h er l awyer s f l a nked h er asth e judge said: "The court f inds th ed e f e n d a n t g u i l t y . " T h e n s h e w a sswept from th e room b y her body-guards.

He r l a w y e r s g a v e no reason fo r thesuprise plea.

Superior Court Judge E. TalbotCallister set sentencing f or May 9 .Patty faces 15̂ years to l i f e inprison on the state charges, but shecould get probation.

So it's back in l i mbo agai n fo rPat r i c i a Campbe l l Hearst, a l r eady aconvicted bank robber w ith a seven-year federal sentence in front of h er ,a three-year nightmare behind.

But, then, the l ife of Patty Hearsthas been in l i mbo ever sinceher spec-t acu lar ki dnapi ng three years ago.From our point of view, she has beenin a kind of no-man's- land all thist ime, and her l i fe is just as uprootednow t h a t she is "free."

Sh e stands as a person apart, amagnet for everyone's musing. I t ispossible to read into the strange caseof Patty Hearst a host of questionsan d concerns — e v e r y t h i n g f r o mthose of money, class, politics, sex,race, violence an d tEe l a w , to suchbasic issues as free wil l and self -

determination.P a t t y H e a r s t h e r s e l f , t h o u g h ,cannot even tie asked about thesethings. One cannot ask her w hat sheh as f or br eakf as t , much less w h a t sh ewas doing in the Hibernia Bank. Sheis inaccessible, w h e t h e r at h o m e or injai l . No reporter ha s ever beena l lowed to talk to her about herself orher attitudes.

No Interviews

This writer, how ever, wa s given theopportunity to at tend her smallf a m i l y bi r t h day par t y i n Febr uar y ,bu t on ly under th e condition tha t th eparty i tself would not be writ tenabout, or the guest of honor inter-viewed.

Reporters can talk to other people,h owever , and, af ter dozens of inter-views during th e last f e w m o n th s w ithrelatives an d f r iends, guard s, doctors,headwai ters and many o t h er peoplein an d ar ound Sa n Francisco w hohave spent t ime w ith her, it is clear

t h at wh at ever else is going on in herli fe r ight now , Patty Hearst is still asbaffl ing as ever.

It is as if she wer e created largelyby l awyer s wh o must h ave dec i ded,long ago, that the nature of her per-sonality — "a victim coerced" or "awilling partner" - was the crux ofher legal case. They didn't say shecould have changed or gr own as aresult of her kidnaping in February,1 9 7 4 , and the subsequent events, or

f a l l e n in love with one young mann a m e d W i l l i e Wolfe an d then donet h i n g s she now regrets.

Sh e w as, specif ical ly, convicted ofrobbing a b ran ch of the HiberniaB a n k w i t h m e m b e r s o f the Sy m-bionese Liberation A r m y ( S L A ) inM a y , 1 974.

P romi ses of Anonymi ty

Nobody w i l l ta lk t o a r epor t e rabout Hearst w ithout first receivinggreat promises of anonymi t y . M r. andM r s . Hearst refused to be interviewedfor this article and are said to feel

enormous distrust , perhaps approp ri-a te l y , to w ard th e press in general.R an d o l p h Hearst regular ly asks th eguards to pledge that they wil l no twr i t e a book about her. An d Alber tJ o h n s o n , one of Patty Hearst'sl a w y e r s and few confidants, w hena s k e d , " W h a t is she d o i n g n o w ? "admi t t ed t h a t sh e does read. But ,w h e n asked, "W hat does she read?"he said: "No comment." That was"too intimate" to reveal.

Ho w ev er , a gr eat many t h i ngs ar eknown now about t h e inaccessibleheiress, who has been out on $1.5million bond posted b y her f a t h e rsince Nov. 19,1976.

In addition to posting bai l , Hearstpromised the court he would payw h a t e v e r it w o u l d cost to h a v e fromthree to six armed guards on dutyaround her 24 hours a day , every da y .Th e guards get $8 an hour, and them i n i m u m cost to guard Patty is saidto run close to $600 a day.

W h e n s h e w a s r el e a s e d f r o mprison, sh e came h ome t o a f ash i on-able Nob Hill penthouse. She rode in ablack l imousine with guards in cars inf r o n t an d guar ds in cars in back. Th eyha d rifles, pistols, walkie-talkies an dsemi aut omat i c weapons .

Wh en she got h o m e to the Nob Hil la p a r t m e n t , w hich reportedly rentedfor $2,000 a m o n t h , sh e found th esame co l l ec t i on of a n t i q u e G r e ekvases, the same Oriental rugs fromh e r g r a n d f a t h e r ' s castle a t S a nSimeon, th e same f a m i l y portraits,and her bedroom, as always, st i l lfi lled with stuffed ani mals . Al l this,u n d er 20- and 30-foot-high ceilings,with t h e cur ta i ns a lw ays dr awn.

Everyone w as there. I t was almostdark outside. Her four sisters, w h onow l ive a w a y from h o m e , h ad comeback j us t to see her. He r cousin W illiean d hi s wife , Nan, wer e there alongwith her best friend, Trish Tobin.

Hearst tied a scarf ar ound he r neckand beamed. Her f irst request w as fora M ai Ta i rum cocktail.

Na n w a s s o b b i n g , Patty w a stw ir l in g around th e room in ecstasy,everyone began drinking champagne,and Mrs, Hearst, a devout RomanC a t h o l i c , k e p t s a y i n g , " A l l ou rpr ayer s areanswered.You're home."

Pat t y Hearst h e ld h ands wi t h h ersisters and ate plates of shrimp an dsaid she wan ted a guard dog. NanHearst , an architect , st i l l cried, andone of the sisters said, "Stop. Or elsewe ' l l al l start."

"I can't ," said Nan. "I'm tooh a p p y . "

Eyes on Pat tyR an d o l p h Hearst , chairman of the

board of the Hearst Corp., presidentof the San Francisco Examiner, anda n e x t r a o r d i n a r i l y c h a r m i n g m a n ,walked around the room and couldn'tt ake his eyes off his daugh t er . He

m a d e toasts, an d W illie Hearst, PattyHearst's fav o ri te cousin and publishero f Outside, the new Rolling Stonenat ur e magazi ne , gave h er lots ofhugs. Nobody le f t unti l af ter 1 a.m.,and Patty didn't go to sleep for thenext 24 hours.

Tw o days later, Sunday night, thefami l y dr ove down No b Hill in the$24,000 silver Mercedes, hal f a blockto the exclusive Stanford Court Hotelw h e r e th e Hearst at torneys an d theirstaff ha d occupied as m a n y as 35

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rooms a nigh t during th e four-montht r i a l last year . Th er e t h ey h ad t h e i rfirst dinner out together.

But a few weeks ago, Pat t y t i red ofth e Nob Hill penthouse. Sh e w a n t e d tom o v e b a c k t o H i l l s b o r o u g h , t h esuburb w h e r e sh e h ad gr own up. SoW i l l i a m a nd C a t h e r i n e a nd P a t t ymoved.

No Longer Ragged

Th e f i r s t ti me t h e w or ld saw Pat t yH e a r s t , i n s i d e a S a n Franciscocourtroom the day she was arrestedin Sept ember , 1975, nobody r ec -ognized her. She looked too mu ch l ik ea raggedy teenager, standing in l inein an a l l -n ig ht caf e t e r i a , to beconfused with the princess of weal t hand privi lege she wa s supposed to be.But sh e certainly doesn't look raggedor c h e a p n o w .

Instead, unstyl ish and l angui d , f ch ew e a r s dresses h a l f w a y d o w n he r legsand looks as f rag i l e as a geisha. Sh eca n be as still as a f r ieze, but tends tof l u t ter w hen she moves. "I thought i fI sneezed, she'd disintegrate," saidone man w h o met h er f or t h e f i r s tt ime several mont h s ago.

W h e n sh e w a l k s across a r oom, sh egoes fast and h er shoulders sw ing, butshe is so smal l yo u t h i nk maybe sh ecould pass between th e bars of a j a i lcell. He r voice never departs f rom amonotone or rises loud enough for tooman y people to hear.

Sh e has a beautiful smile, lovelyskin and wrists as small as a baby's.

When sh e l augh s an d turns he r headto glance o v e r her s h o u l d e r ,something quite fantastic happens.Sh e becomes part coquette, partinnocent and al l entrancing.

She actively dislikes Steven Weed,the ma n she l ived with unti l the nightof her kidnap ing, and has not seenh im si nce t h en. H er f a v o r i t ecompanion, by all accounts, is theguard dog, a Ger man sh eph erd namedAr r ow, wh o sleeps at the end of herb e d , l icks her face in the morning andwei gh s almost as m u c h as she does.He w as trained to attack, sh e oncesaid jokingly, on "a picture ofOrrick," t h e f eder a l j udge , Wil l iamOrrick, who sentenced her.

No MenSh e j okes about want i ng to f a l l in

love and w a n t i n g to meet men, but alot of men don't wa nt to meet h er.They apologize to the intermediariest ry in g to arrange the dates and say

they're no t interested. "I don't w a n tto get involved," on e said. As a conse-quence, she spends more of her t imew ith h er relatives, he r guards, he rfew friends and the lawyer, Johnson.

Sh e goes fo r lunch wi t h f r i ends tosome of San Francisco's f anc i es tplaces. Sh e spends many o f h erevenings in nightclubs and restau-rants, d r i n k i n g w i n e a n d o r d e r i n gfood t h at sh e may only pick at andnever f inish. The ri f les and pistolsan d walkie-talkies sit at the ad j acenttable, or stand in the doorway. Theyw a t c h . W h e n sh e excuses herself to goto the bathroom, h er f emale guar dsgo, too, and stand by the sink andw a i t .

Al mo s t ever y day a t noon she goesw ith th e guards to Episcopal mass.Sh e likes to feel "safe and chi ldlike,"she has told people, and enjoys thefeel ing of "sitting there in ch ur chw ith God wat ch i ng me. "

It's an interesting fact about Pat t y

Hearst , but almost everybody wh omeets he r l ikes her. M a n y sa y they

had not expected to. Th ey poi nt to her" c h a r m , " " e n t h u s i a s m " a n d e v e n"wi t . ""Real M oody"

" I w a s surprised," said on e w o m a n ," b u t I ended up l iking her a lot . Itho u g ht s h e w a s pretty nice. She'sreal moody, but she's got a sense ofhu mo r, and she l ikes to have a goodtime. She goes hot and cold on you,tho u g h. One minute she's real nice,th e next sh e cuts yo u dead. And Imean dead. It's h a r d t o t el l w h a t she'sreal ly l ike."

But at least one person wa s struckby ho w "undeveloped" she was for"someone of her potential ." "She hasno knowledge , " he said, "not even an ysavvy, and you'd think, at least, she'dh a v e that"

There are others w ho speak of hera r r o g a n c e , c o n c e i t a n d s h a l l o wdisregard fo r other people. They cal lh er m a n i p u l a t i v e a n d s a y h e rinnocence an d helplessness ar e real,but purposeful . It gets everyone tot ake care of h er , th ey say . A par t fromhe r money, i t provides, they claim,he r greatest resource: The appar entwil l ingness of other people to providefor her, to be at her beck and cal l andto be her umbilical cord to the worldat large.

"Her relat ionships ha ve never beenon an equal basis," unless with a gir l-friend, said one person w ho know s herwe l l . "Th ey h ave a lways been de-pendency things, si tuations where sh ew as essentially being protected or

steered in a cer t a i n d i r ec t i on bysomeone else."

Lost Years

Sh e was kidnaped w h e n she was 19,but there is no indication tha t , duringthe next three years — a f o r m a t iv eperiod in most people's lives — s heworked out any identity questions. Infact , said o n e w o m a n , "there's a lot ofdevelopment that didn't occur w ithPat t y . Us u a l l y f ro m the t ime you're19 t i l l you're 23, you develop a senseof yourself an d w h a t you'd like to dow ith your mi nd an d your l i fe. Bu tt h at ' s on ly begi nni ng to h appen t oPat t y now . She's lost those years."

T h e r e a r e i n d i c a t i o n s , h o w e v e r ,t h a t Pat t y Hear s t is in a continuingstate of emot i onal and ph ys i ca lu p h e a v a l . Sh e i s reported t o h avebeen menst r uat i ng v i r t ua l l y non- st opfor over a year. Before that therewer e i ndi cat ions t h at h er m enst rua lcyc le ha d stopped for a long t i me, an d

s h e h a s r e p o r t e d l y b e e n u n d e rtreatment by internists since the tr iall as t year .

S h e b o u g h t S u s a n B r o w n m i l l e r ' sbook on rape an d started to read it,bu t t h en , sh e t o ld a f r ien d , sh estopped because it disturbed her toomu ch to continue.

Appar ent ly sh e h as shared f ew, i fa n y , of her recollections of thosey e a r s a w a y f rom h ome wi t h any o fhe r f r iends or relat ives. "She justdoesn't w a n t to discuss w h a t went onthen," on e said. "It's al l taboo."

On e m an noted that w h e n r e l axi ngat h ome "sh e reads, plays car ds ,watches television, talks to her moman d dad and h er sisters. But theydon't t a lk about anyt h i ng i mpor t ant ."

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Th er e is a case to be made, t h at th el awyer s r egar d any i mage pi c t ur i ngPat t y Hear s t as either in danger , oras a helpless victim, as beneficial to

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people h a v e , h o w e v e r , t h a t s h e ' l lnever go back to j a i l , t h i s is, in f a c t ,not al l t h at cer t a i n . Some of thosef a m i l i a r w i t h her legal posit ion sayt h a t , as a convicted ba nk robber — nom a t t e r h ow h ear t - r endi ng h er individ-u a l h is to ry may b e — the gover nmentwa nt s h er t o serve fu r ther t ime in j a i las proof he r case isn't an e x a m p l e ofspecial justice for the rich.

Th e a p p e a l of her robbery convic-tion was recently argued in the NinthU . S . Circuit Cour t of Appeal s . Th edecision, how ever, w i l l not be h anded

d o w n fo r some t ime, a n d , in themeant i me, s he p ro b ab l y wi l l r e m a i nf ree on bail .

Hear s t , h ow ever , i s t r y i ng t o g i vehe r l i f e some semblance of nor mal i t y .Sh e h as gotten a new driver 's l icense,but sh e r ar e ly if ever drives becauseher security arrangements prevent i t .

She has opened a checking accountin her o w n name. Bef or e , h er parentsjust gave her $100 bi l ls. She alsocontinues to use her father 's M ast erCh ar ge car d .

Pat t y a l so ha s spoken of w a n t i n g tow o rk . Sh e h as expressed interest bothin c h a r i t y w o rk and in w r i t ing. In thisconnection, she has been in touch withHelen Gur ley Brown, editor of Cos-mopol i t an magazi ne , w hich is ownedby the Hearst Corp. Nothing ha s comeof this yet , and she has w rit ten noarticles, bu t during t h e t i me sh e wasin prison, sh e carried on a r egu larcorrespondence w i t h the editor thatBro w n init iated.

After Hear s t was released fromjai l , Brow n sent her a box of presents,inc luding leopard-skin bracelet, an dthen , she said, "I tho u g ht one of thebest things I could do f or h er was giveh er something to do. I had heard shew as interested in w rit in g , and so Ipicked out five or six little assign-ments she could do, al l under anassumed name, of course. I h aven ' th ear d an y thin g f ro m h er about t h emy e t , so I don ' t know, b u t I tho u g htthey'd be perfect for her."

W h a t wer e t h ey? Br own w as asked."I can't remember," sh e sai d , at

first. An d then , recollecting, sh e saidsh e cou ld r emember t wo. "Th ey wer ev e r y s e n s i b l e articles, e a s y to

research, and t h ey wouldn't requiretoo m u c h emot i onal i nvo lvement . On ew a s , ' W h a t kind of insurance everyCosmo gir l sh ou ld carry ." Th e ot h erw a s , 'Ever t h i ng a Cosmo gir l needs toknow about not burning up in a f ire. ' "

P e r h a p s Bro w n missed th e irony.A mo n th a f te r th e Hibernia bankrobbery, Pat t y ' s lover , Wil l ie Wol fe ,an d f ive ot h er SL A member s bur nedto d e a t h i n a Los A n g e l e s h o u s eduring a Shootout with police.

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R o b e r t B e n n e t t o f K a n s a s w a sreported recuperating satisfactori lyM o n da y f o l l o w i n g 2 V 4 h o u r s ofsurgery for removal of a kidney stoneth e size of a nickel.

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House Assassinations Committee in-vestigators said Mo n d ay th e F B I ' h a spromised to coordinate its investiga-tion of any l eads on the assassinationsof President John F. K ennedy and Dr.M a r t i n L u t h e r King wi th Houseprobers.

B u t t h e s t a f f o f f i c i a l s t o ldcommi t t ee member s t h at t h e Senat eIntel l igence Committee has not yet

honored requests even fo r some of itspublic mat er i a l , m u c h less confiden-tia l in fo rmat io n .

D e p u t y S t a f f D i r e c t o r S t e p h e nFallis told the committee a systemh as been wor ked out "wh er eby t h eFBI wi l l notify us i m m e d i a t e l y of anyar eas t h ey ar e investigating in con-nection w ith these assassinations."

C h a i r m a n L o u i s S t o k e s ( D e m . ,Ohio) asked if t h a t m e a n s the FBI issti l l investigating both assassinations.

"They a re interested in pursuingany new leads or evidence" and havepr omi sed t o coor di nat e any suche f f o r t w i t h t h e commi t t ee , Fallisreplied.

Former C hief C o u n s e l R i c h a r dSprague once told the FBI i t has nobusiness investigating leads in eitherassass i nat i on w i t h o u t c o o r d i n a t i n gw ith th e House committee first.

Sprague took that posit ion in aletter to the agency w h e n h e l ear nedth e F B I w a s investigating a reportt h at a third bullet believed fired atPr esi dent K ennedy mi gh t h a ve beenfound.

Mor e recently, Sprague unsuccess-f u l l y sough t power for the committeeto go to court to get i n f or mat i on f ro mthe FBI and other agencies.

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