May 20, 1974

FBI classifies Patricia Hearst as armed and dangerous fugitive and will file felony charges against her for firing machine gun into sportings goods store; she will be charged with violating Fed firearms laws in helping accomplices Emily and William Harris escape after they were stopped by store employes for shoplifting; FBI asst bur dir William A Sullivan also says that information about her participation in armed holdup of Hibernia Bank, San Francisco, will be presented to Fed grand jury on May 20; says Hearst and Harrises abducted Tom Dean Mathews, 18, and drove him around in his van for 12 hrs, during which time Hearst was introduced to him as ‘Tania’ and she told him she participated in bank robbery and shooting at sporting goods store; discloses that Frank Richard Sutter was abducted after Mathews was released when group commandeered his car; body of Camilla C Hall found at scene of police siege in Los Angeles, bringing total of dead Symbionese Liberation Army members to 6; Los Angeles Mayor Thomas Bradley defends police actions in raid, citing danger to police from armed force inside house; illus (L)

May 20: Israeli Min Shimon Peres says on May 19 that both Israel and Syria would accept compromise cease‐fire line proposed by Sec Kissinger to clear way for Syrian‐Israeli agreement on separation of forces on Golan hts; announcement follows discussions by Kissinger and Israeli Premier Meir and their aides on details of disengagement pkg now being worked out after negotiating breakthrough on May 18 in Damascus over placement of demarcation line to which Israel would withdraw from occupied Syrian territory; Amers at meeting include Under Sec Joseph J Sisco, Natl Security Council staff member Harold H Saunders and Asst Sec Alfred L Atherton; US spokesman Robert Anderson says Israel expressed favorable attitude to US proposal on line and that subject will be discussed on May 20 with Syrian Pres Assad; Kissinger cautions that there are still important details to be negotiated and that it is premature to say that agreement is wrapped up; US and Israel set up working groups to discuss details still to be resolved; Sisco and Israeli Foreign Ministry dir gen Mordechai Gazit will head 2 groups; among unresolved items are size of buffer zone between Israeli and Syrian forces on Golan hts, UN role in supervising that zone, limit on each side's mil forces in areas adjacent to buffer zone and release of prisoners; Israel wants guarantee from US that it will conduct impartial reconnaissance flights over area and commitment that it would use its veto to prevent dissolution of UN force in area; illus of Kissinger (L)

India's explosion of nuclear device has abruptly lifted sagging morale of Prime Min Gandhi's Govt and firmly cemented nation's mil dominance on subcontinent (M)

he is elected French Pres; illus (L)

Article on truck hijacking in NYC; Sgt Robert Chapman of NYC Police Dept's Safe, Loft and Truck Squad says nearly 90% of hijackings in NYC can be tied to organized crime; Capt Paul Herny says significant number of hijackings are planned at 2 Queens soc clubs; says it is partly information coming from these clubs that has helped to reduce number of hijackings in city from high of 378 in ‘71, involving $7.8‐million worth of merchandise, to comparatively low ‘73 total of 127 hijackings, involving $4.2‐million; while police have succeeded in curtailing hijackings, they complain that not many hijackers have been jailed; case study by NY Joint Legis Comm on Crime of 8 defendants arrested in Nov ‘68 for criminal possession of over $100,000 worth of stolen women's clothing noted that each defendant was fined $2,500 and placed on probation by Judge Albert H Bosch; during next 5 yrs these men were arrested 17 additional times; police have identified men as frequenters of Queens soc club; another frequenter cited is Paul Vario, who is member of Luchese crime family; Herny says Luchese family controls hijacking in city; graphs show number of hijackings and value of merchandise stolen in NYC met area from ‘68 to ‘73 and various items hijacked in ‘73 (L)