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ise >ei i atty Hearst takes the stand THE BATTALION Page 5 TUESDAY, FEB. 10, 1976 hat coj nt apl ter and! udentsj Continued from page 1 her kidnaping and wasn’t the only aember to sexually abuse her. Bailey Dt pursue the matter further. Litchfield, Conn., Wolfe’s mother, nia Wolfe, said, “As for my gentle i assaulting anyone, it’s not true. He [[tractive and possibly they were in . But assault was not part of his J 1 ?' Slfe was last seen by his family at jtmas in 1973. cond part of Miss Hearst’s testimony newtfcaused a rustling in the hushed cour- hlyno omwas her qualified admission that SLA as!i dfain Donald “Cinque” DeFreeze had her a choice of remaining with the |agtag band of revolutionaries or re home. ler questioning by Browning, Miss _,t said DeFreeze once came into the SB hideout and “said I coidd go home or t: |with them. I didn’t believe him.” to f She said DeFreeze ordered her to men- S 0l |her offer of freedom on her tape admit- a gcomplicity in the bank robbery. )erse Miss Hearst testified that she and the Hses watched live television newscasts kn fW Ei of the shootout between six SLA members and Los Angeles police. Killed in the Los Angeles house that be came an inferno during the shootout were DeFreeze, Miss Atwood, Wolfe, Camilla Hall, Nancy Ling Perry and Patricia Sol- tysik. Miss Hearst said all helped plan or participated in the bank robbery. With her attorney questioning her, she said the SLA’s final stand affected her de eply. The barrage of gunfire into the frame structure reinforced her SLA-inspired be lief that the FBI wanted to kill her, she said. She noted that newscasters were suggesting she might be in the house. “As a result of observing the public offi cials firing bullets and incendiary bombs into a house into which you were believed to be, did that affect your belief that the FBI would kill you?” asked Bailey. “Yes,” was the reply from the slim de fendant. After the shootout, she said, she and the Harrises fled to the Oakland-Berkeley area. Cross-country After meeting sports activist Jack Scott there, she and the Harrises separated, she said, and Scott took her by automobile to a Pennsylvania farmhouse where she spent the summer of 1974. Scott’s parents ac companied them on the trip to Pennsyl vania and Scott returned her to the West in the fall, she testified. While in the East, Miss Hearst said, she spent time with some of Scott’s friends and met Japanese-American artist Wendy Yoshimura, who was arrested with her last September. Miss Hearst testified that Miss Yoshim ura never forced her to do anything. Asked if she could have walked away from Scott during their cross-country travels, she replied, “Where would I have gone? I didn’t feel that I would be able to go anyplace. ” Miss Hearst said that in the fall of 1974, Scott took her to Las Vegas, Nev., where his parents live, and there she was reunited with the Harrises. Scott’s wife, Micki, said in a statement issued in Portland, Ore., that “it would not be appropriate” to comment on Miss Hearst’s testimony while the trial is in pro gress. Miss Hearst’s travels after the fall of 1974 were left unclear, but she admitted in re sponse to a question that she had lived for a time in Sacramento. All the time. Miss Hearst said, she lived in fear of the Harrises. They said she was an outlaw with no place to go and forced her to work on a manuscript for a book of the history of the SLA replete with revolution ary rhetoric, she said. In the manuscript. Miss Hearst’s hand writing often appears as she writes of her commitment to her kidnapers and their struggles together. Miss Hearst said she was told she would be killed if she didn’t cooperate on the project and that Harris gave her a black eye on four separate occa sions. The day ended with Dr. Margaret Thaler Singer, a clinical psychologist, testifying that she could discern from the SLA tapes that Miss Hearst was acting under duress. Appointed by the court to interview the defendant, she said she had spent a total of 24 hours talking with Miss Hearst and that the taped voice “does not resemble her spontaneous speech style.” LAKEVIEW CLUB 3 Miles N. on Tabor Road Saturday Night: Country Music Revue 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 ■ . ingle persons get tax break « Associated Press TMCOTT CITY, Md. — One r EfroTf deserves another — as P^vid and Angie Boyter are IfBoyters’ second marriage is a month old, but already they EVare contemplating their sec- dilorce. Their first divorce was Dec. 8, ending a nine-year They remarried a month ED B behavior is the result of I— not directed at each other, itthe American income tax sys- ^ j/Bie Boyters say the system ■ I Binglc persons over married 43. W' Vedid it more for principle than eew :hin^ else,” Mrs. Boyter said. in igl,|ijust kept getting madder and df-r each year. ” B Boyters work for the federal jn r, mment and earn about $23,000 Jpually. ■ Boyter estimates their 1975 as a married couple would be about $10,300, regardless of whether they filed a joint or single return. If they were single, she says, each would pay about $4,500, a total of $9,000. The $1,300 difference added up to divorce for them. “About three years ago they gave a tax break to single persons,” Mrs. Boyter said. “But that doesn’t apply to married persons filing separately. “And then, with last year’s tax re bate we got rooked again. If we had been two single people we would have gotten back about $200 each. As a married couple we just got $100. I think that was the last straw. “If they don’t change the laws, I have every intention of getting a di vorce again this year. ” It is possible for a couple earning about equal salaries to save some money by filing as single persons, said David Estey, a spokesman for the Internal Revenue Service’s Bal timore office. He said Congress passed the Re venue Act of 1971 to bring rates for single persons in line with the rates for married couples. In some income brackets, it is cheaper to file as a single person, he added, but there is a question whether the tax saving is worth the inconvenience and expense of a di vorce. The Boyter’s divorce in Haiti cost about $1,100 — including air fare, hotel and lawyer fees. “I’m sure some people think it’s morally wrong,” Mrs. Boyter said. “That’s their problem. 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