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Page 6 THE BATTALION TUESDAY, MAR. 9, 1976 i ' b I * 1 3 Miles N. on Tabor Road Saturday Night: Johnny Paycheck and The Lovemakers From 9-1 p.m. Ladies $1.00 STAMPEDE Every Thursday Nile (ALL BRANDS BEER 40 cents) Men $2.00 Every Tuesday Nite LADIES $1.00 All Brands Beer 40c 8-12 Dance every Tuesday and Thursday MEN $2.00 Hearst Reigning monarch runs rag-tag revolutionary arm] IS Associated Press SAN FRANCISCO — Dismissing portions of Patricia Hearst’s defense as “unbelievable,” a government psychiatric expert has portrayed her as the reigning monarch of a rag-tag army of revolutionaries she lifted to international fame. “She was the queen” of the Sym- bionese Liberation Army, said Dr. Joel Fort. “She brought them inter national recognition, the excite ment, the press attention .... She enjoyed the status and recognition this brought her.” *> e le C S.e Or ON CAMPUS MARCH 22-25 SIGN UP NOW FOR AN INTERVIEW 10TH FLOOR RUDDER TOWER 1 ] 1 I , : HOUSTON BALLET i 1 i i i ] i "THE CITY OF HOUSTON HAS GOOD REASON TO CELEBRATE THE BICENTENNIAL IN ’75-76, AND ITS OWN BALLET TROUPE IN ALL THE YEARS AHEAD " WALTER TERRY, SATURDAY REVIEW Tuesday, March 23, 1976 8:00 P.M. Rudder Auditorium : 1 i i < Ticket prices A&M Student/Date $4, $3, $2 Regular $6, $5, $4 Tickets and information — MSC Box Office — 845-2916 Fort, a physician with psychiatric training, took issue on Monday with several key elements in Miss Hearst’s own story of fear and sexual assault inflicted by her SLA captors. The government is trying to prove to the jury that Miss Hearst took part willingly in a 1974 bank robbery. The defense claims, and Miss Hearst has testified, that she participated out of fear for her life. U.S. Atty. James L. Browning, Jr. spent most of the day eliciting Fort’s picture of the 22-year old newspaper heiress. Defense attorney F. Lee Bailey had just begun his cross- examination when court recessed for the day. He planned to resume his questioning today. Fort, his opinions based on four jailhouse interviews with Miss Hearst as well as other material, de clared that the defendant was “a vol untary member of the SLA” when she and four comrades robbed the Hibernia Bank on April 15, 1974. “She did not perform the bank robbery because she was in fear of her life, ” Fort said over strenuous objections by Bailey. U.S. District Court Judge Oliver J. Carter allowed the answer to stand but instructed the juiy that it was strictly Fort’s opinion. When Browning asked about Miss Hearst’s contention that she shot up a sports store in the Los Angeles area to rescue two underground compan ions because of a “reflex” action dril led into her by the terrorists, Fort said, “I find it unbelievable. ” An enraged Bailey jumped to his feet, but Carter overruled his objec tion, again cautioning the jury to treat the answer as one man’s opin ion. Fort appeared to push Miss Hearst to the point of an angiy out burst when he specifically con tradicted her emotional tale of rape in a tiny closet where she was held captive in the weeks after her Feb. 4, 1974 kidnaping. Miss Hearst told him, Fort said, that she submitted to now-dead ter rorists Willie Wolfe and Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze because they asked to have sexual intercourse with her and she thought it would help keep her alive. “She said she had had intercourse with Wolfe a couple of times prior to the bank robbery, ’ Fort said. “She did not indicate he in any way forced himself on her or that directly or in directly rape was involved. ” Miss Hearst, who had wept when recalling for the jury that she had been forced to have sex with a man she despised, stirred in her chair and Bailey placed a restraining hand on her shoulder. The defendant occasionally turned toward her parents, Randolph and Catherine Hearst, and sneered slightly as Fort gave his testimony. When Fort said that “enthusiasm seemed to be absent” when she was reunited with her family the night of her Sept. 18 arrest, she whispered to her parents a salty characterization of the witness. The Hearsts laughed, and the de fendant’s younger sister, Vicki, moaned, “Oh, my God.” Miss Hearst frequently scribbled notes and handed them to her attor neys as Fort described her as having an “extremely independent, rebelli ous” youth, experimenting with drugs and “becoming sexually active at age 15.” By 1 B and found it in the excitemenli— on the run. » n y ^ He said her relationshipr Kthisw< wealthy family ranged “from f to hatred” and that she hath® 1 eaC to get away from the namenjla slipp ■Borde All Sout ture of the Hearst family. When six members of the tribe were killed in a fire in May 1974, he Hearst had a “mourning rej She had developed particular tional bonds” for Wolfe and diers Angela Atwood and \M a t u rd Ling Perry, he said. j] ghou' He pictured the defendant as bored and restless before her kidnap ing, “a chance exposure at a time when she was looking for something” “I was impressed with the j| ity when she spoke of her lo,l Willie Wolfe” on a taped than a month later, Fort said Hearst has renounced that ree as made under duress fromai prepared by others. Fort, who has appeared as a pert witness in nearly 200trials on the stand as a consultantli Oi government. He said he spenld 15 hours examining the deW By CA FBI focus on Jews, black Communists, women’s lib AN Om SPECIAL ATTRACTION TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY TOWN HALL YOUNG ARTISTS SERIES nresents THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS WIND ENSEMBLE TUESDAY, MARCH 30, 1976 8:00 p.m. RUDDER THEATER A&M STUDENT FREE NON A&M STUDENT-DATE $1.00 GENERAL PUBLIC $2.50 NO RESERVED SEATS Tlye Tilings HAIRSHAPING EMPORIUM FOR MEN & WOMEN 846-7614 331 University (Upstairs above Kesami) Associated Press WASHINGTON — Women’s lib bers, Communists, militant blacks and Jews and taxpayers protesting against taxes were among the targets of domestic surveillance by govern ment agencies, a Senate committee says. The Senate intelligence commit tee released nearly 1,000 pages of documents Monday, detailing domestic FBI wiretap and surveil lance operations and Internal Reve nue Service undercover spying. One memo shows the FBI used informers during 1969 and 1970 to keep track of the women’s liberation movement in several U.S. cities, but never turned up any evidence of Battalion Classified Call 845-2611 revolutionary or violent activity. The panel said it found that informers were employed in New York, Balti more, Kansas City, Mo., Columbia, Mo., and Lawrence Kan. But a May 1969 memo from the head of FBI offices in New York to the late Director J. Edgar Hoover said informers found the women’s lib movement “is not an organization as such but rather a cause and philoso phy” interested in such issues as birth control and abortion. One informer told the FBI that members of the women’s movement “are not revolutionaries and would not help anyone in a revolution until the oppression of women was solved first and completely, the memo said. Committee documents also showed the IRS used undercover agents to monitor activities of tax protesters in Los Angeles and Chicago. One memo said an IRS undercover agent in Los Angeles gave the Justice Department ad vance information on the legal strategy planned by a protester fac ing trial for refusing to pay his taxes. A memo describing activities of the “undercover operative” said the agent had been able to obtain a copy of the tax protesters’ legal tai eral months before it was court. The memo said the advam gave the IRS time to “doadlli research in order for the U.S. ney to properly answer thismfl which sought dismissal of oaf i charges against the unidentiM protester. An undercover IRS agent signed to attend public meefe Chicago of the Illinois Tax Relf! Committee, a 1973 memo si Another memo released k panel outlined FBI wiretap against the Black Panthers, Jewish Defense League ami Communist Party U.S.A. TIm is believed to provide the fid thoritative list of domestic and individuals subjected I tronic surveillance by the FBI The memo said seven win and an electronic bug were against the Black Panthers. Other targets were Military Organizations, descril “a black extremist organization 1 Worker Student Alliance, said an affiliate of the Students Democratic Society, and some! viduals. the Jta PHI RA TICKETS AND INFORMATION AVAILABLE AT MSC BOX OFFICE ON THE FIRST FLOOR OF RUDDER TOWER. 845-2916. No Cameras or Recording Equipment will be allowed. Candidate for U.S e fe ollei umf: 'inia If you are a freshman with a GPR of 3.25 or better there is a place for you in the Memorial Student Center. The MSC Council and Directorate has opened applications for Council Assistants. There will be at least two posi tions open per Council officer. The officers are vice-pres. of Administration, vice-pres. of Finance, and vice-pres. of Programs, Director of Operations, Director of Projects, and Director of Public Relations. The assistant positions involve working with and helping the Council officers in their different duties. The positions are open to freshmen in any field of study who have an interest in Texas A&M and its student programming. Talented people in journalism, graphic arts, business, finance, and administration are needed. Fill out this application and drop it by the MSC Student Programs Office on the second floor of the Memorial Student Center. What Can You Hurt By Applying? Applications close Friday March 12 at 5:00 p.m.! speaks on TEXAS A&M UNIVERSITY MEMORIAL STUDENT CENTER COUNCIL & DIRECTORATE Application for MSC Council Assistant (Please Print) Name. ^Classification, Major. _GPR Last Semester, Mailing Address. Are you on (Conduct, Scholastic) Probation? Yes “THE NATIONAL CONOMY” hoo am( hole one h cross 'Wer c Telephone No Activities and Honors in High School (use back if needed) Experience with MSC Activities Other Campus Activities Other Time-Consuming Activities Next Year. Magazines and Newspapers Read Regularly. Wednesday, March 10 8:00 p.m. Books Read in Last Year Why are You Interested in Becoming Involved in Campus Activities (especially as a Council Assistant) Room 201 MSC FREE Your Concept of a College Education A Political Forum Presentation m/ci