THE BATTALION
MONDAY, DECEMBER 7, 1981
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U.S. military plane sale
continues with Algeria
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Staff photo by Dave Einscl
United Press International
WASHINGTON — The U.S.
government is quietly proceeding
with a $100 million sale of six C-
130 transport planes to Algeria,
opening up a new military supply
relationship with the north Afri
can country.
Congress did not disapprove
the deal, so the Commerce De
partment issued a license for the
sale this past week to the Lock
heed Corp.
State Department officials say
it is the first military sale of any
importance to Algeria.
The military transports, replac
ing aging Soviet-made aircraft,
represent a shift in Algeria’s align
ment away from the Soviet Union
and toward the United States.
It is understood that Algeria
will not use the American-made
planes to help the Polisario guer
rillas in their war against Morocco
in the Western Sahara. And the
Moroccan government, which The sale, involving spare parb'
also buys American aircraft, didn’t and some pilot training, will totali
raise any strong objection to the nearly $100 million, according tbi
Algerian sale. the State Department.
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SAN FRANCISCO — Patricia
llearst says she drove a getaway
ear in 1975 holdup, where a
nother of four was accidentally
|illed by a shotgun blast by Sym-
ionese Liberation Army member
[Emily Harris.
In a new book, Hearst — who
rved two years for one bank rob
bery — says Harris thought the
afety was on her hair-trigger
eapon when the woman was kil
led in Carmichael, Calif, but af-
jbrwards added: “Oh, she’s dead
but it really doesn’t matter. She
was a bourgeois pig anyway.’’
■ The woman was Myrna Lee
Opshal, 42, who had gone to the
Crocker National Bank to deposit
money from her church. She was
taken to a hospital where her
surgeon husband found her dead
on the emergency room table.
In her hook, “Every Secret
piling,” Hearst, 27, also revealed
that she carried a non-operating
■arbine in a San Francisco bank
robbery and helped plant four
pipe bombs in an attempt to kill
police officers in San Francisco.
Hearst, now Mrs. Bernard
Shaw and mother of a six-month-
iold daughter, was kidnapped Feb.
1974, by the SLA, a tiny terror-
* 1st band who carried her scream
ing from her Berkeley, Calif.,
apartment. Ten weeks later, after
saying she had joined her captors,
she was photographed helping
them rob a San Francisco branch
of Hibernia bank.
“I had joined the SLA because if
I didn’t, they would have killed
me,” Hearst said. “And I re
mained with them, because I truly
believed that the FBI would kill
me if they could, and if not, the
SLA would.”
! She was arrested in September
1975, in San Francisco and later
served almost two years in prison
for armed bank robbery. Her sent
ence was commuted by President
Carter on Feb. 1, 1979.
Tony White, assistant district
attorney in Sacramento County,
Calif, where the fatal Crocker
ihank robbery took place, said
Hearst cooperated with author
ities in the case and was granted
immunity in return.
He said because she was not in
side the bank, she would not be
prosecuted for murder even if she
had no immunity. She cannot be
prosecuted for bank robbery in
the case because the three-year
statute of limitations has expired,
White said.
The only person to go on trial for
the robbery was SLA “soldier”
Steven Soliah, who was acquitted.
Harris and her husband, Bill
Harris, were both sentenced tq
jail terms for shooting up a sport
ing goods store in Los Angeles, for
robbing the San Francisco hank
and for kidnapping Hearst. They
were given up to 25 years in pris
on, but could be freed on parole in
1984.
One of the mysteries about
Hearst’s fugitive years was her
activities during a so-called “mis
sing year” before hter arrest.
There had been speculation
that she was associated with a
group thought to have committed
two Sacramento, Calif., area hank
robberies. But until her revela
tions in the book, the extent of her
involvement wasn’t known.
Hearst married her former
bodyguard, a San Francisco
policeman, and is living quietly in
a San Francisco suburb.
She says she was forced to com
mit the April 14, 1974, Hibernia
robbery by her kidnappers and
only pretended to go along out of
fear for her life.
She said she carried a nonoper
ating carbine and that once inside
the bank, she aimed it at a teller,
being careful not to aim it in the
direction of SLA leader Donald
“Cinque” DeFreeze. “I knew that
if my weapon were pointed in his
direction, he would shoot me.’’
When DeFreeze and five other
members of the SLA died in a fire
and sjiootout with police ip Los
Angeles, she said the only way she
could stay alive was to stay with
the Harrises, the only remaining
SLA members, and others who
subsequently joined them.
Authorities, she said, “would
shoot me on sight — I firmly be
lieved that.”
She added: “Once I had been a
kidnap victim, but now I was a
hunted criminal.”
On Feb. 25, 1975, she wrote,
she waited in a car nearby while
others in her fugitive band robbed
a branch of the Guild Savings and
Loan Association in Sacramento,
Calif.
Two months later, on April 21,
she drove a getaway car from the
scene of the robbery at the Crock
er National Bank branch where
the fatal shooting took place.
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