Symbionese

The newspaper heiress, who was kidnapped by the Symbionese Liberation Army and later joined them as “Tania,” was the recipient of two presidential actions.

One of its stranger spinoffs was the grandiose, tactically clumsy Symbionese Liberation Army — an army of perhaps a dozen white men and women led by a black escaped convict.

Patty Hearst had been kidnapped by, and seemingly joined, the Symbionese Liberation Army.

The Symbionese Liberation Army — the tiny cadre of Bay Area radicals that Harris belonged to — learned that Hearst lived without security at that address near campus.

“Some people” turned out to be a half-dozen or so members of the SLA, the grandiosely named Symbionese Liberation Army.