SAN FRANCISCO
:,or the first time in public -
Js
Patricia
iiPI
Hearst
t:ftH.-.
today_ of som
e
of the torment
she endured
at the hands of lier terrorist kidnappers. This
i,s
-~
testlmony outside the presence of the
j r y
lfaimed at
~
at.~
thwarting ,._ introduction of 111hat .,._ defense considers
/..
r,
prejudicial evidence.
Miss Hearst telling how slie w,as loclied
in a small, dark closet for six w,eeks - ,io111 slae was
stuffed in a garbage can whenever she was
11:Jl-•11·,.,
hauled from one place to another - how slie .,as
beate,s a,sd tlareatened with death - how site
became
eve,stually - "a sort of robot:' u,ader the co,atrol of
S L A
leader Donald DeFree._ze.
In cros
s
exami,salion - Miss •
Hearst
was then asked why - later on - when she had the
opportunity - why didn't she try to escape.
~'If
I
walked away" she replied "then other members of the
S L A 111o
u
ld have come lookin
or me -
a,sd
I
/BIi
SAN FRANCISCO -
2
the F B I was looking for me too."
Miss Hearst also
attempt~ to explain why she later fired off a machl11e
,1
ga,,s -
to help l11Jo S L A members escape capt•re.
Sayi,sg: "I had go,se to classes every day
•••11
"'Y
bll,sd fold was off - a,sd this toas the so'tt of tl1i11g
we studied - I Just did it."
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WHITE HOUSE
r
~
President Ferd
s ~
sent to Congress
:fud ■ y
-::
a special message spelling out his new
welfare proposals. The President calling for a tllree
tenths of a percent increase in social security lases -
to be borne equally
by •
i1
I
employee
.
and employers;
also, a revision in medicare - to cover "catastroplaic"
76
health cos ts.
rlae President saying lais goal is _...,
- , "helplsg all Americans - to
li
,e _, in dignity,
•••• IOJ
i'r
security and good healtla."
COMMONS
Britain's Prime Mi,aister Wilson told the
House of Commons today - it's probably true
tlaat
up to fourteen British merce,iaries laave
bee,a esecMted
i,a A,agola - for refusing to go i,ito battle.
Wilso,a
addi,ag tliat appare,atly - "a considerable
,aumber -
also
~ ( . . , ~
l&ave bee,a killed i,a
' '
"1arlike operatio,is."
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HUAMBO
Me ■ w•IUe;
Soviet backed forces ,,. A•gola
~
•ere claiml,ag
l1illa9 ::;
the capts,re of Huam
bo
o,ace
"
,,.e
headquarters of pro-wester,a forces.
T"e fl••l
.,.. assault reportedly led by a Marsist army -
,. .. •l•U••
,J.
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Cuba11S,
THE HAGUE
The government of the Netlterlands ordered
a special investigation today into reports tltat Prince
Bernhard received more titan a
0
million from
Locklteed
w,:u.._
a
i
rcraft. A government source .,... quoted as
sayirtg
/\
a finding against the Prine e - "could entail tlae
abdicatio,s" of his t1Jife, Queen Julla,sa. The Prince
luaz,1r:;
d e ~ ••:,,
.,roag doiag
~ ~ w t
he t1Jelcomes a full investigation.
BONN
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List week,- •••• a West German
news weekly published the names of fifteen all11ged
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GUATEMALA CITY
Armed patrols in Guatemala at, today
slaot a11d tilled at least five perso11s - ,,. the act of
looti11g eartlaquake damaged houses.
A local
11e•sP•11•r
also telli,ag o
f
"groups
•I
eel1e1•••••
disguised •
victims of the eartlaquake - b u t . _ the11 drug a,ad rob
BILBAO
Tlte mayor of a sllll
11
suburb of Bilbao
in norther• spaiM -
was assassinated today by four
youn;B~eparatists.
A
being mayor, a ltigll-ra•ki•g ba•k executive a•d •o
declared, quote,"a• e•emy of t l l e ~ o p l e . "
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VATICAN
At the VJtican in Rome
.
- Pope ..,,,. Paul
aoas insisting today tllat love may be fleeting - but
marriage like diamonds is
,~--IU,r
forever. Tlae
Pontiff saying: "If the e,sd of inHial amorous passion
implied also the e,sd of the conjugal pact" ,
I y
t r
•lly
this a,ould leave -" the door open to •
almost limitless
divorce."
0
ROSYTH
Britain's Priftre
MD
Charles today became
the first heir to tlae British throne in modern times-
to assume command of a British warship.
The PriJtce
takiJtg over as skipper of the mine hunter H M S
BroJtiJt
ton - in a
k l e f
ceremony at BritaiJt's Rosyth
.
Naval Base in Scotland.
~Claarles' Jteto slaip .- or.ly a hundred and
fifty three feet long - with
.
a crew of less
tlaaJt
forty.
Observers
Jtoti,ag
ho•ever, ,.,s "smile could scarsely
hf1ve
bee,a
more brilliaJtt - if
it
had been a battle
cruiser manned by thousands. "
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beautiful tre
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for about
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quar
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or
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littl
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park for as li
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as
fifteen hundred
.
The
Bo ton birthda
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book -
a
per
f
ect gift for
•
the man
w
ho has everything and wants to give sorne of it back
f
or
a
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to enjoy.