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Patty tells of fear,
abuse, sexual assaults
SAN FRANCISCO (UPI) -
In a quiet, emotionless voice,
Patricia Hearst finally told her
story of life underground with
Carter admits struggle
for non-Wallace votes
By United Press International
Former Georgia Gov. Jimmy
Carter admits there’s an
important struggle underway
among some Democrats for
“non-Wallace votes” in Flori
da’s March 9 primary, but says
his chief rival in that depart
ment is not a threat
Carter, at a round of
appearances in the West Palm
Beach area Monday, also
admitted he is dickering for
financial aid from wealthy
Palm Beach Republicans who
are disenchanted with both
President Ford and Ronald
Reagan.
The former governor contin
ues his campaign in the state
today with appearances in
Hollywood and Hallandale. He
is the only candidate scheduled
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ATLANTA—Sen. Henry McDowell (D-Savannah) on the first day of the session following a one week for
conducts business from a sign which reads “When lam budget hearings. McDowell said he had done at least one
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times
Rep. Bobby Carrell (D-Monroe) listens intently to the speaker from behind his paper strewn
desk and a plaque that admonishes “a clean desk to a sign of a sick mind.” A fairly light
schedule marked the first day after a one week recess for budget hearings with many
legislators in an impish mood. (UPI)
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Army —a life of fear, sexual
assault and physical abuse.
The 21-year-old newspaper
to be in the state.
Carter said he expects
Alabama Gov. George Wallace
to win the state’s primary, but
added, “I think I’ll finish a
close second.”
He also acknowledged Wash
ington Sen. Henry Jackson was
competing with him for the
anti-Wallace vote in the state.
“Obviously, there is an
important struggle going on for
the non-Wallace votes,” he
said.
But Carter dismissed the
senator as a threat, describing
Jackson as a “good and able
man” who simply cannot get
votes and whose campaign for
the nomination “peaked a little
over a year ago.”
The former governor said he
met Sunday night with about 40
heiress admitted Monday she
helped rob a bank, fired a
machine gun at a Los Angeles
sporting goods store, helped
well-to-do Palm Beach resi
dents, “about 90 per cent of
them Republicans.” He said
there was “no attempt to
organize them into “Republi
cans for Carter,” but he
“welcomes Republicans who
want to help me.”
An aide said Carter viewed
the Palm Beach Republicans as
potential contributors to his
campaign.
Jackson also continued his
campaign in the state Monday
with a series of appearances in
the Tampa Bay area and
Miami.
He received a rousing re
sponse from 500 students at the
Clearwater campus of St.
Petersburg Junior College when
he criticized other nations for
failing to aid in the fight
against world hunger.
kidnap a high school student
and tracked back and forth
across the country with radi
cals without trying to escape.
She-said she took part in the
bank robbery and did whatever
else she was told after being
threatened with death “hun
dreds of times.”
She said she was locked in
dark closets for several weeks
after her kidnaping, raped in
one of them by William Wolfe
and other SLA members,
hauled from one hideout to
another in a garbage can
carried in a car trunk, and
punched in the eye four times
by William Harris.
Fear that either the SLA or
FBI would kill her — especially
after she watched six of her
kidnapers slain in a battle with
Los Angeles police on television
— kept her from taking
advantage of repeated chances
to escape, Miss Hearst said.
Although she covered most of
her life underground, she was
instructed by defense attorney
F. Lee Bailey not to respond to
questions from Prosecutor
James Browning Jr. about the
planning of a bank holdup last
April in Carmichael, Calif.,
where a woman was killed.
Bailey told her to decline on
grounds of possible self-incrimi
nation.
Miss Hearst made the first
public disclosures about her life
in captivity at a hearing on the
admissibility at her bank
robbery trial of evidence about
events in the April 15, 1974,
holdup.
The jury, absent from the
courtroom during Miss Hearst’s
appearance, was excused again
today as U.S. District Court
Judge Oliver Carter continued,
the hearing.
The granddaughter of news
paper magnate William Ran
dolph Hearst renounced her
SLA comrades and denied ever
being emotionally involved with
William Wolfe, whom she
described in a tape made after
his death as “the gentlest, most
beautiful man I’ve ever known”
and as someone she “loved so
much” because of his commit
ment to revolutionary goals.
Miss Hearst said her eulogy
to Wolfe and five other SLA
members killed in the Los
Angeles battle was written by
Emily Harris and that she was
forced to read it.
She said SLA member Angela
Atwood wrote the script for an
April 18, 1974, tape in which
Miss Hearst said she voluntari
ly took part in the bank holdup
as “a soldier in the people’s
army” and insisted she hadn’t
been brainwashed.
“Now there are statements
on the tape ... indicating that
you acted voluntarily when you
went to the Hibernia Bank. Was
that true? Did you, in fact, act
voluntarily?” Bailey asked.
“No,” she replied.
Bailey and Browning asked
her about the May 16, 1974,
incidents in Los Angeles, when
she sprayed the front of a
sporting goods store with
machine gun bullets to help the
Harrises escape.
Commissioner
denied a
new trial
WAYCROSS, Ga. (UPI) — An
attorney for Ware County
Commissioner Maitland Po
pham says he will ask the state
Court of Appeals to review the
commissioner’s conviction for
stealing some 13,500 worth of
timber from the county airport.
Superior Court Judge Ben
Hodges Monday refused re
quests for new trials and bonds
for Popham and former airport
manager James Hickox, who
was found guilty in the same
case.
After the brief hearing, Baker
McGee, Popham’s lawyer, and
Leon Wilson, repesenting Hick
ox, said they would appeal the
convictions.
Busbee, House near
budget agreement
ATLANTA (UPI) - Gov.
George Busbee and House
leaders continue wrangling
today with the state’ proposed
$1.92 billion budget for next
fiscal year with Department of
Human Resources spending on
the drawing board.
Busbee and the legislators all
but completed work on the
governor’s budget late Monday,
leaving the DHR for their
private meeting today.
“Overall, I’m very pleased
with the results of trying to
resolve our differences,” Bus
bee said after the session.
“We’ve been over the entire
budget except the Department
of Human Resources, and we’ll
do that tomorrow. We don’t
have any substantial differen
ces.”
Busbee said he and the
lawmakers agree S2O million
ought to be cut from the budget
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William Harris (top left), his wife, Emily (top right) and Jack Scott and wife, MicH,
(bottom) (’75 photos), all figured prominently as Patricia Hearst testified yesterday
outside the presence of a jury in her bank robbery trial. She said she joined the robbery
because her life was threatened hundreds of times. She said she was deathly afraid of SLA
members William and Emily Harris and did as they told her. When asked about being in
Pennsylvania during the months of underground hiding she said “Yes”, and explainer! B he
went there with Scott and his wife. (UPI)
GRIFFIN
DAILY^NEWS -
Trip to happiness
ends in disillusionment
PORTLAND, Ore. (UPI) - When
Robert Rubin went off on his would-be
UFO trip to eternal happiness last fall,
his wife said he’d be back in three
months. It was more like four.
Rubin and two others who followed a
mysterious couple called “The Two,”
promising a higher form of life on
another planet through a ride in an
unidentified flying object, are back in
the state.
They say they are “off the trip” and
urge their fellow travelers to take
another look at the philosophy they
have espoused.
Rubin and Ron and Judy Greenberg
are back in the Waldport, Ore., area
where a nationwide furor started when
more than a dozen persons vanished
after listening to the “Two” in
September.
Rubin did his traveling by car, not
UFO.
He and the Greenbergs in an
interview Monday estimated perhaps
50 of the 400 persons, who joined the
movement nationwide, have quit.
“As far as we know everyone who has
and added to the state’s
working reserve fund in case
state revenues ever fall short in
the future as they did this fiscal
year.
Busbee declined to name
specifically his proposed cuts,
which he explained to the
legislators Monday, but said
“they would not severely affect
any program” in state govern
ment.
The governor and House
fiscal leaders were expected to
agree on a final budget
proposal today so the bill can
go to the House Appropriations
Committee this week.
Appropriations Chairman Joe
Frank Harris, D-Cartersville,
said he hopes to get the budget
bill out of his committee and
onto the House floor by the end
of the week.
In other action Monday, a
modified version of Busbee’s
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plan for expanding the govern
ing board of the Metropolitan
Atlanta Rapid Transit Authority
passed the House.
The bill by Rep. Hugh
Jordan, D-Stone Mountain, ap
proved 139-13, would add the
State Transportation Commis
sioner, Revenue Commissioner
and director of the State
Properties Commission to the
MARTA board.
Busbee had proposed expand
ing the board by three
members, with one coming
from DeKalb County to give
DeKalb greater representation.
Jordan’s bill would accomplish
that end —by removing Cobb
County’s membership and in
creasing DeKalb’s from one to
two.
The House also gave its
second rejection to a bill
allowing Georgians to register
to vote by mall. The bill by
followed them is all right physically,”
Rubin said. But they said anyone who
has joined the movement and leaves
may have some mental problems.
“You really get shattered,” he said.
“They told us 1. never believe the
newspapers and 2. if we ever left the
movement, we would self-destruct.”
Greenberg added, “I was waking up
at night for the first couple of weeks
wondering if I would self-destruct.”
The three are convinced “The Two”
—or Bonnie and Hers or “Bo and Beep”
— believed their own message, at least
at first. They are not sure now.
Greenberg said that despite the
urging of “The Two” that followers
leave everything behind “I can
document that they’d collected $70,000
to SIOO,OOO — but that’s not their
motive.”
The three are not sure what the
motive is.
“They talk about a love completely
different from anything on this planet,”
he said. “Maybe it is possible people
are looking for the love they lack in
their lives.”
Rep. John Greer, D-Atlanta,
had been defeated earlier but
was reconsidered — and
rejected again by a three-vote
margin.
The Senate passed a bill to
open criminal records for
inspection by employers, so
businesses dealing in house-to
house sales or deliveries would
know if a potential employe had
a record for burglary or other
crimes his job might give him
a chance to repeat.
The Senate also voted for
minimum three-month jail sent
ences for second-offenders
using a knife in a crime,
making the minmum six
months for third and subse
quent offenses. The mandatory
minimum could not be suspend
ed or shortened and would be
served in addition to any
sentences for the crime in
which a knife was used.