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19-Month Manhunt Ends =IP ES Spartan Daily Serving the San Jose State University Community Since 1934 VOLUME 64 NUMBER 8 FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1975 PHONE: 277-3181 Patty, Harrises captured; 19-month manhunt ends SAN FRANCISCO (AP)Fugitive Miss Yoshimura was released to the band on the third finger of her left hand. Soon she participated in a bank newspaper heiress Patricia Hearst and custody of the Alameda County Prior to Miss Hearst, Miss robbery and then was seen spraying three radical comrades were arrested Sheriff's office, where she is charged Yoshimura, 32, was brought before the bullets from automatic weapon at a yesterday, ending one of the longest with possessing explosives. magistrate. As she was escorted from sporting goods store. After six of her and most hiearre manhunts in In a crowded courtroom two and one the courtroom, she reached over to comrades died in a shootout with I,os American history. half hours after her arrest, Miss Hearst where Miss Hearst sat at a defense Angeles police, Patty sent a tape in Miss Hearst, first the captive and was arraigned on charges that included table and squeezed her hand. Then she which she mourned their deaths, then the zealous comrade-in-arms of bank robbery and federal weapons was led away to be turned over to reviled the establishment and swore the Symbionese Liberation Army violations. authorities iii Alameda County, where 'lever to return to her family, whom she (SLA), was arrested without resistance Her hair a reddish-brown color, cut in she faces charges of possession of called "pigs." in a house in the city's Bernal Heights a shag style, the slightly built Miss explosives. That was June 7, 1974, and she was district along with fugitive Berkeley Hearst listened as the charges against SLA at end not heard from again. artist Wendy Yoshimura, 32. her were read by U.S. Magistrate Owen Before the hearing, FBI agent Charged with bank robbery and About an hour earlier, police and Woodruff. She wore tinted glasses and Charles Bates, in charge of the case violation of federal firearms laws, federal agents working on the case appeared quite pale. from the start, said, "This effectively which could mean life imprisonment if arrested SLA members William and Asked by the judge if her name was puts an end to everybody we know who she is ever convicted, Patty Hearst Emily Harris when they spotted them Patricia Campbell Hearst, she an- was in the SLA. He held out the became a fugitive. jogging on a street a few miles away. swered, "Yes." possibility of further arrests in the "Thank God she's all right," Miss Hearst kidnaped case, however. Harrises left Hearst's mother, Catherine, said in a Miss Hearst was kidnaped from her The Harrises were arrested at 1:15 The FBI said Patty and Bill and barely audible voice when informed of Berkeley apartment Feb. 4, 1974 by the p.m. as they jogged down a street in the Emily Harris were the only members her daughter's arrest. "Please call it a then-mysterious SLA. Mission District. Misses Hearst and left of the SLA. rescue, not a capture." Within two months, she had joined Yoshimura were arrested at 2:35 p.m. Miss Hearst's father, San Francisco her captors and declared herself a For more than 19 months Patricia She was "sighted" hundreds of Examiner President Randolph A. revolutionary. Hearst was one of America'a most timesfrom the hills of Tennessee to a Hearst, was in New York on business In addition to federal charges, Miss engrossing mysteriesand the victim Colorado cafe, from a Los Angeles and said as he boarded a plane for San Hearst and the Harrises face state of this country's first political kid- freeway to Cuba, Hong Kong, Algeria Francisco: "I am very pleased that charges that include kidnaping and naping. and Mexico City. things turned out the way they did." robbery. Asst. Dist. Atty. John Howard The heiress was dragged screaming Charge discounted in Los Angeles said the three would be amid gunfire from the Berkeley Virtually all checks on the reports Hearst said of the bank robbery brought there next week for arraign- apartment she shared with her fiance, proved fruitless. The case began a new phase charge against his daughter: "I don't ment. Stephen Weed, on Feb. 4, 1974. with odd clues in April. Sport activist Jack think anything will happen on that William Harris, 30, and Emily, 28, Her kidnapers were members of the Scott and his wife, Micki, had rented a score. After all she was a kidnap vic- were arraigned after the 21-year-old Symbionese Liberation Army SLA, a farmhouse near South Canaan, Pa., and it was tim, you must remember." Miss Hearst was taken from the band of young people calling them- reputed to have been a possible hideout for Miss Hearst Patty Hearst with her forhner fiance, Steven Weed, during happier days before FBI special agent-in-charge Charles courtroom. As he entered the room, selves revolutionaries. Her family tried said loudly, to free her by agreeing to the SLA's and her comrades. Hearst's Feb. 4, 1974 abduction. Bates said the arrests "effectively put Harris raised both fists and poor" an end to everyone we know who was in "Hey, comrades, keep on truckin'." demand for a "food for the A grand jury is presently meeting on the SLA." Bail set program. that phase. The Scotts have declined The arrest of Miss Hearst came less Bail for all three was set at $500,000. Within two months of the kidnaping, comment on the farmhouse or a than 10 miles from the Berkeley Miss Hearst, who at one time posed in Patty said she believed her family had possible link to Patty, saying, "We have apartment where she was kidnaped by military fatigues with an automatic not tried hard enough to free her. She done nothing wrong. We have com- Professors charge SLA members Feb. 4, 1974. rifle in her hand, wore a mauve-colored shocked the world by announcing on a mitted no crimes." Miss Hearst, 21, and the Harrises long-sleeve shirt, brown jeans and tape recording sent to a radio station were arraigned before U.S. Magistrate sandals at her arraignment. that she had joined her SLA captors and Frederick Schwartz, Emily's father, Owen Woodruff on a variety of state As she stood before the magistrate was now a soldier named Tania. said he was aware of the arrests but and federal charges and held on with her attorney, Terrence Hallinan, Weed rejected had no further information and did not 'arbitrary actions' $500,000 bail each pending further her arms were folded across her chest. She rejected her 27-year-old fiance, wish to comment further. Schwartz was hearings Friday. She had what appeared to be a silver calling Weed a "pig." reached at his home outside Chicago. By Dana Bottorff excerpt from a resolution of the board Charges that the administration has of trustees adopted in 1967 which ad- violated promotions procedures were vanced the theory that peer evaluation Third legal econ action against university made at a United Professors of is the best method of judging promotion California (UPC) meeting Wednesday cases. by faculty members who are involved "The university promotions com- in grievance procedures. mittee should be nominated by the In a UPC sample grievance letter, faculty and elected by the faculty," Lee Four econ profs file speech freedom suit available to all present at the meeting, asserted. the group alleged that the ad- Lee and Robert Duman, UPC local ministration and the university vice president, will have a "meet and By Doug Ernst California State University and '4' promotions committee engaged in confer" session with Dean of Faculty Four former economics professors Colleges (CSUC) Board of Trustees; "arbitrary actions" by reversing or Robert Sasseen and Academic Vice have filed suit in Federal District Court Glen Dumke, CSUC chancellor; SJSU ignoring the promotion re- President Hobert Burns next Tuesday. in San Francisco against the university President John Bunzel; and Willis, now commendations of department pro- They will discuss the possible im- on grounds their rights of free speech on sabbatical leave. motions committees and chairmen. plementation of faculty elections of the was violated by university ad- Van Atta is charging that a The university promotions com- university promotions, according to ministrators. memorandum, written Feb. 8, 1974 by mittee "is called an administrative Lee. Sue Van Atta, David Landes, Andy Willis and sent to Dr. James Sawrey, committee," according to Dr. Roland He added it is possible they will Parries and Gayle Southworth charged dean of the School of Social Sciences, Lee, president of the UPC local. discuss the aboliton of the committee the university refused to retain them, adversely affected her bid for tenure He pointed out in the sample letter altogether. not because they were unqualified, but last year. that the way the committee is selected "It can be argued that the existence because they voted against the Van Atta is also charging her right of Is in violation of board of trustee policy. of the university promotions committee chairman of the department, Dr. due process under law was violated According to the policy, the com- is a violation" of board of trustees James Willis, in a departmental because she was denied proper mittee must be a faculty consultative policy, Lee added. election. grievance opportunities. committee. The main purpose of yesterday's This is the third suit against the University administrators deny the But since its members are nominated meeting, according to Duman, was to university concerning the Economics memo had any effect on the decision to by the seven school deans and ap- advise and assist faculty members who Department controversy which began refuse tenure to Van Atta.
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