Radical groups react
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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 25, 1975
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| SAN FRANCISCO - Radical
| groups reacted with skepticism
Wednesday to Patricia Hearst’s
: sworn statement that she was
tortured and driven to insanity
by her Symbionese Liberation
Army captors.
“Our feeling is, we haven’t
heard anything come out of Pat
ty’s mouth since she’s been ar
rested except when she iden
tified herself as an urban guer
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AUSTIN — Atty. Gen. John Hill
says the U.S. Department of
Health, Education and Welfare has
finally agreed to change its methods
of collecting unpaid federal student
loans.
Hill said Wednesday that HEW
had notified him that from now on
their collection efforts will “be
broadened to encompass all respon
sible parties.”
Hill protested last March 10
about the existing policy of the Of
fice of Education of "looking solely
to the student for collection of inde
btedness while ignoring altogether
other parties equally liable.’
The attorney general said there
have been a number of conferences
in recent months between federal
and state officials and the Office of
Education has now agreed to “col
lect from the student only that
amount which represents earned
tuition; tuition refunds due the stu-
I dent by the educational institution
■ will he credited to the student’s ac
count upon assignment of the re-
I fund rigilt by the student to HEW.”
Hill said the recommendations
| were made after an investigation by
his department into violations of the
Texas Deceptive Trade Practices act
by a number of proprietary schools.
Among other things the investiga
tion revealed that some schools
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about the circumstances of how
the affidavit was made,” she
said. “We still support her until
she says something herself to
prove we shouldn’t.”
The newspaper heiress, ar
rested here Thursday, swore in
an affidavit presented Tuesday
in support of her request for a
reduction in bail that she lied
under duress when she told of
her rebirth as the revolutionary
“Tania.”
She declared in her affidavit
she was tortured mentally and
physically by her kidnapers,
that whe was blindfolded,
hound and locked in a closet for
weeks while constantly
threatened with death.
“From everything I know
about the SLA, I just don t be
lieve they would treat her the
way the affidavit described,”
Miss Streem said.
She said her organization was
active in the legal defense of
SLA members Joseph Remiro
and Russell Little in their mur
der trial on charges of assassis-
nating Oakland schools Supt.
Marcus Foster. It also is one of
three groups that issued a
Meeting set
withHopson
The College Hills Parent-
Teacher Organization (PTO) has
scheduled a meeting for Oct. 6 with
School Supt. Fred A. Hopson and
the school board.
PTO publicity chairman Roger P.
Sindt said several projects are being
planned along with six more regular
meetings.
Projects to be discussed include a
money-making project for October
and November, additional tables for
classrooms, more bike racks and
carpeting for the school library.
A special Drug Abuse Program
sponsored by the Texas Dept, of
Corrections will be presented Nov.
3.
Plans for other meetings include:
VThe annual Christmas prog
ram, Dec. 1.
V Discussion of the testing prog
ram, Feb. 2.
VOpen House, sometime in
March.
April meeting plans will be an
nounced later.
Election of new officers will he
held May 3.
Officers for this year are Elliott
Bray, president; Gail Hanselka,
vice-president; Charlie Hill, trea
surer, and Nancy Karickhoff, sec
retary.
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statement of support im
mediately after Miss Hearst, fel
low SLA members William and
Emily Harris and Fugitive
Wendy Yoshimura were cap
tured last Thursday.
The United Prisoners Union,
another group that joined in
that statement, “doesn’t believe
that she turned on people we
consider comrades,” said
spokesman Sleepy Bailey.
“If she gets up in court and
starts saying those things, or if
we hear them confirmed by
other SLA members like the
Harrises, then she would no
longer be considered a com
rade, Bailey said.
“It’s immaterial whether
Patty Hearst became a willing
accomplice or was merely a vic
tim of the SLA,” said a spokes
man for the Progressive Labor
party, which describes itself as a
Communist organization dedi
cated to violent revolution.
“The real issue is how this gang
of police agents and informers
was used to discredit the entire
left movement in this country.”
Radical attorney Dan Siegel,
who defended a group of Ber
keley activists questioned by
police pursuing the SLA, said,
“I don’t know whether I believe
or disbelieve her statements.
“As a lawyer, I’d say her at
torneys are following the
strategy most likely to result in
her being acquitted. But as an
activist, I think what’s going on
reflects the bankruptcy of the
kind of politics the SLA and
similar organizations repre
sent.”
Attorney Charles Garry, who
has defended Black Panther
Huey Newton and other ac
tivists, said, “I have a reaction,
but I don’t intend to make it
public. I’m afraid if I was to
make any comments, it might
be misconstrued.
Two black community groups
that worked with the People in
Need food giveaway disigned to
free Miss Hearst shortly after
she was kidnaped said they
would have no comment. Lead
ers of the Black Muslims and
Western Addition Project Area
Committee said they had
pledged at the time of the food
program not to become in
volved in other aspects of the
case.
Ironically, the underground
terrorist New World Liberation
Front, in a communique appa
rently sent before the affidavit
became public, urged Miss
Hearst to “adopt the tactics of
silence” and refuse to cooperate
with her father’s lawyers.
The NWLF, which has
claimed responsibility for
numerous local bombings, said
in a message to a television sta
tion that it had given the com
munique to her attorneys on
Monday and accused them of
withholding it from the impris-
ioned heiress.
Supreme Court rules
landmark decision
Associated Press
AUSTIN - The Texas Supreme Court began a
new term Wednesday with a landmark decision
that business firms cannot commit injustices and
then hide behind “corporate fictions’ to avoid
lawsuits.
In so ruling, the court also upheld a $140,000
judgment against Credit Plan Corp. of Houston,
Colonial Finance Corp. and Kelcor Corp. and in
favor of the late John B. Gentry Sr. and his wife,
Ellen.
The Gentrys suit alleged that Credit Plan had
committed illegal loan collection practices in
1969. In 1972, they added Colonial, as Credit
Plan’s parent, as a defendant. Kelcor was added
in 1973 after Colonial merged into that corpora
tion.
Colonial and Kelcor sought exclusion from
the suit on the ground the two-year statute of
limitations had run out before they were added
as defendants.
But the high court ruled they were automati
cally parties to the suit when it was first filed
against Credit Plan. A long analysis of Colonial
and, later, Kelcor's structure ended with the
conclusion that their subsidiaries - including
Credit Plan - were “regarded not as separate
business entities but as sinipl^offices of the
parent company.
The court noted that a subsidiary is usually
not regarded as its parent corporation’s “alter
ego. "
“On the other hand, where management and
operations are assimilated to the extent that the
subsidiary is simply a name or conduit through
which the parent conducts its business, the cor
porate fiction may he disregarded by the courts
to prevent fraud or injustice,” the unanimous
opinion said.
Opinions were not issued in the other 113
cases decided by the court as it ended a two-
month working recess with a heavy clean-up of
pending business.
The court affirmed lower court decisions that
blocked Galveston millionaire Shearn Moody
Jr.’s attempt to regain personal trust fund in
come that he had signed over to his now insol
vent Empire Life Insurance Co. of Alabama.
Moody had assigned 40 per cent of his share of
the income from the Libbie Shearn Moody hirst
to Empire in 1963 when lie was the sole voting
shareholder. When Empire went broke, its re
ceiver negotiated a reinsurance program with
Protective Life Insurance Co. of Birmingham,
Ala., to continue policyholders coverage.
The court-approved reinsurance plan re
quired Empire to transfer to Protective its share
of the Mood\ trust income. A Galveston district
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