8A The Paducah Sun Thursday, June 17. 1999 FBI captures SLA fugitive who had new life as actress I II III (JF I i -j fir i ftU- 1 i i A- Ex-general to head Energy's higher security Associated Press WASHINGTON Trying to head off calls for an overhaul of his department, Energy Secretary Bill Richardson named a retired four-star general to head security operations on Wednesday. Retired Air Force Gen. Eugene Habiger, former commander of all U.S strategic nuclear forces, promised to be a "dictator" and move "quickly and aggressively" to fix security shortcomings in the department's nuclear weapons programs. Following up on a promise made last month, Richardson said that Habiger, 60, who retired in August after 35 years in the military, would have broad authority to improve security at the department and the nuclear weapons labs that have been the target of espionage for years.
"He has the experience, expertise and determination to change the security culture and establish the authority and responsibility that's been missing," Richardson said. Habiger, who will take over the recently streamlined and centralized security office on July 6, will have an annual budget of $800 million and report directly to Richardson. King said. Detectives described her as being somewhat surprised and relieved at the same time. The SLA, a band of leftist radicals with a seven-headed snake as their symbol, kidnapped Hearst from her Berkeley, apartment in February 1974.
She was 19. The group demanded that the newspaper heiress' parents, Randolph and Catherine Hearst, distribute $2 million worth of food to the needy before it would discuss freedom for their daughter. The demand later climbed to $6 million. 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 an SLA holdup of a San Francisco bank the robbery for which she eventually was tried, convicted and sent to prison.
In May 1974, as people watched on live TV, Los Angeles police trapped heavily armed SLA members in a house and riddled it with bullets. The group's leader, an ex-convict who called himself Cinque, and five other SLA members died. Hearst went underground and didn't re-emerge until 1975, when she was arrested in San Francisco. month, on the 25th anniversary of a shootout in Los Angeles that left six SLA members dead. Soliah did not participate in the shootout or the Hearst kidnapping.
In a federal warrant drawn up this year, authorities said that in 1984, her husband was aware of her true name and fugitive status. It was unclear whether she was married at the time to her current husband, Fred Peterson. They bought their house in 1989. No one who went into the house or answered the door Wednesday would comment. The FBI said Soliah had taken the last name of Olson, which is extremely common in Minnesota because of the large number of people of Scandinavian descent.
Neighbors described her as a well-spoken and friendly woman, and an avid jogger and gardener. "She seemed very classy," said Gary Price, the neighborhood's regular mailman since 1983. Pat Kramer, who lives across the street, said she was a "very down-to-Earth person" who would bring a casserole to block parties, "just like the rest of us did." Soliah was arrested about 8:30 a.m. while driving to a school to give some kind of lesson, Los Angeles Police Detective Tom By John Nemo Associated Press ST. PAUL, Minn.
A fugitive member of the Sym-bionese Liberation Army, the radical group that kidnapped Patricia Hearst 25 years ago, was captured Wednesday in St. Paul, where she had made a new life as a stage actress under one of the most common of Minnesota names: Olson. Kathleen Ann Soliah, 52, had been wanted in Los Angeles since 1976, when she was indicted on murder conspiracy and explosives charges for allegedly placing pipe bombs under two police cars. They did not go off. The FBI said she also committed bombings and bank robberies with the SLA.
Until Wednesday, she had been living as Sara Jane Olson in an ivy-covered house with her doctor husband and three daughters, the FBI said. Olson had gotten good reviews for her starring performances in local theater productions, appearing in such plays as "Lion in Winter" and "King Lear." Agents found her after receiving tips from viewers of "America's Most Wanted," which featured Soliah in a broadcast last month. The FBI had also offered a $20,000 reward for Soliah last Associated Press 'Seemed Classy': Kathy Soliah speaks at Ho Chi Minn Park in Berkeley, in May 1974. Coast Guard seining Y2K from harbors Vote For Me So I Can Vote For You For The Next 3 Years Associated Press LOS ANGELES If seafarers don't prepare their ships' computer systems for the Y2K computer bug, they may be forced to drop anchor outside a harbor or reduce speed on the nation's waterways come New Year's. Coast Guard officials made the announcement Tuesday after finishing a two-day test of systems at the nation's busiest harbors the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach.
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