Patty's Love and Hate

For three weeks after her six comrades in the Symbionese Liberation Army died in a Shootout with police, Patricia ("Tania") Hearst dropped out of sight. Last week she and Fellow Survivors William and Emily Harris surfaced in a 33-minute tape-recorded message clandestinely delivered to radio station KPFK in Los Angeles. In it the newspaper heiress heaped scorn on her parents, vowed to fight on against "the pigs," and revealed that she had taken an S.L. A. member as her lover.

He was William Wolfe, 22, the son of a Pennsylvania anesthesiologist and one of those slain in the Los Angeles firefight. In a soft and calm tone, Patty said that her relationship with Wolfe, whom she called "Cujo," was founded on a "commitment to the struggle and our love for the people." She added: "He taught me the truth. We loved each other so much. His love for the people was so deep that he was willing to give his life for them. The name Cujo means 'unconquerable.' It was the perfect name for him."

Much of the tape was a eulogy for the slain, whom she described as "six beautiful sisters and brothers" whose memories had been distorted by the "fascist pig" media.

She added: "While I have no death wish, I have never been afraid of death. Life is very precious to me, but I have no delusions that going to prison will keep me alive. And I would never choose to live the rest of my life surrounded by pigs like the Hearsts." The day before the tape was delivered, a federal grand jury in San Francisco indicted her for armed bank robbery and committing a felony with a firearm. Added to the 19 felony charges brought against her by authorities in Los Angeles, the latest accusation could keep her in prison for the rest of her life--if she is captured alive and convicted.

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