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Public and private expenditures on health, education, and welfare now command as large a share of Gross National Product as does all manufacturing—about 25 per cent. If the trend continues, we will eventually manufacture nothing at all. But we will be the healthiest, best educated bunch of welfare recipients in the whole world.

Not widely noted: Patricia Hearst’s fiance and cohabitee Steven Weed had SDS and black militant roommates at Princeton. His name and phone number turned up in an address book belonging to Symbionese Liberation Army information officer Nancy Ling Perry. In a recent interview, Weed stated that Patricia never read her father’s paper, the San Francisco Examiner. At the dinner table she used to tell him it was “an irrelevant rag geared to senior citizens.” Commenting on Patricia’s safety in the same interview, Weed remarked: “The question is whether to worry more about the SLA or the FBI.” The ideological atmosphere surrounding the couple is thus pretty rancid. The FBI is administering sodium pentothal “truth serum” tests to Weed in connection with its investigation of the kidnapping.

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Public and private expenditures on health, education, and welfare now command as large a share of Gross National Product as does all manufacturing—about 25 per cent. If the trend continues, we will eventually manufacture nothing at all. But we will be the healthiest, best educated bunch of welfare recipients in the whole world.

Not widely noted: Patricia Hearst’s fiance and cohabitee Steven Weed had SDS and black militant roommates at Princeton. His name and phone number turned up in an address book belonging to Symbionese Liberation Army information officer Nancy Ling Perry. In a recent interview, Weed stated that Patricia never read her father’s paper, the San Francisco Examiner. At the dinner table she used to tell him it was “an irrelevant rag geared to senior citizens.” Commenting on Patricia’s safety in the same interview, Weed remarked: “The question is whether to worry more about the SLA or the FBI.” The ideological atmosphere surrounding the couple is thus pretty rancid. The FBI is administering sodium pentothal “truth serum” tests to Weed in connection with its investigation of the kidnapping.