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To: gao seng who wrote (219154)	1/16/2002 4:54:14 PM
From: gao seng	Respond to of 769670

Former SLA Members Arrested for 27-Year-Old Bank Heist Wednesday, January 16, 2002 SACRAMENTO, Calif. — Three former members of the Symbionese Liberation Army, the radical group best known for kidnapping Patricia Hearst, were arrested in connection with a 27-year-old bank heist and shooting death, officials said Wednesday. "We did arrest some of the members of the original SLA this morning," said sheriff's spokeswoman Shar in custody at this time." The SLA is the band of California radicals that made headlines in the 1970s when it kidnapped, then adopted as a member, the newspaper heiress. Telles said Emily Harris was arrested at her home in Los Angeles and her ex-husband Bill Harris was arrested in Oakland. Police in Portland, Ore., said a third suspect, Mike Bortin, was arrested at his home in Oregon. The arrests were first reported on The Sacramento Bee Web site. The three will be charged with first-degree murder in the shooting death of Myrna Opsahl, who died during the April 21, 1975, robbery of the Crocker National Bank. Hearst took part in the robbery after she joined the SLA. Prosecutors had hoped that testimony by Sara Jane Olson, another former SLA member, would advance the case. Olson, known as Kathleen Soliah at the time of the robbery, is set to be sentenced Friday in Los Angeles for her role in a failed plot to bomb a Los Angeles Police Department cruiser. The SLA kidnapped the then-19-year-old Hearst from her Berkeley apartment in February 1974. The group, whose symbol was a seven-headed snake, demanded that her parents, Randolph and Catherine Hearst, distribute millions of dollars worth of food to the needy. But then Hearst metamorphosed into Tania, a member of the very group that took her prisoner. Two months after the kidnapping, she was photographed carrying a carbine during a SLA bank holdup in San Francisco — the robbery for which she eventually was tried, convicted and sent to prison. Six SLA members were killed in a shootout and fire on May 17, 1974. There were scores of sightings, but Hearst didn't re-emerge until Sept. 18, 1975, when she was arrested in San Francisco along with the Harrises. Although she claimed she was the victim of brainwashing, she was convicted in a highly publicized trial and sentenced to seven years for the bank robbery. She served about two years before President Carter commuted her sentence. Olson was a fugitive for nearly a quarter century. In June 1999, FBI agents acting on a tip from "America's Most Wanted" captured her in St. Paul, Minn., where she was living as a mother, a doctor's wife and a community theater actress. Olson pleaded guilty in October to possessing bombs with intent to murder officers. She later made an unsuccessful attempt to withdraw the guilty plea. Bortin is married to one of Olson's sisters and attended some of her Los Angeles court hearings. Officials with the Los Angeles district attorney's office said they shared information on the Olson case with Sacramento investigators. Sandi Gibbons, spokeswoman for the office, would not comment on the specifics of the Sacramento case, including whether Olson might be called to testify. Sacramento District Attorney Jan Scully said in November that Olson remains under investigation for any role she may have played in the robbery and killing. Hearst was granted immunity from prosecution for her admitted role in the Carmichael robbery. In exchange, Hearst, who was waiting in a getaway car outside the bank, told authorities that Olson and her brother, Steven Soliah, took part in the holdup. Steven Soliah was acquitted by a jury. Hearst also placed Bortin at the robbery scene and said Emily Harris shot Opsahl. Harris was later convicted and sent to prison on charges unrelated to the robbery. She was paroled in the early 1980s. Myrna Opsahl's son, Southern California physician Jon Opsahl, had launched an intense lobbying campaign to pressure Sacramento County District Attorney Jan Scully to file charges in the case. Myrna Opsahl was at the bank to deposit money from her church when she was shot. foxnews.com

To: gao seng who wrote (219154)	1/16/2002 6:13:20 PM
From: J_F_Shepard	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769670

"Thanks for the legwork. I haven't seen a $2 bill in a while, and couldn't confirm. Did you look at one, or is this from a web site?" I have a $2 bill.....got it at Monticello where the admission is set at $8.....guess who's picture is on the $2. We've saved it as a souvenier. I examined it with a magnifying glass and compared to the the original painting and a poster on web sites. re: Guiliani.....Gabe Pressman, a newsman in NYC for more than 40 years, wrote a column about Rudy yesterday....talked about how he controlled the press and put them in "pens"...he was not kind to him. So far no reaction in the Times from readers.