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Show A22 The Salt Lake Tribune NATION Sunday, January 9, 2000 Trial Set forFugitive of 23 Years young medical intern wholived next door. On March 12, 1980, Ol Kathleen Ann Soliah indicted for Symbionese Liberation Armyties icine, Olson practiced politics. son and Gerald “Fred” Peterson were married in a civil ceremony While Peterson practiced med. In February 1981, Olson and her family were on their way to THE ASSOCIATEDPRESS In the darkened sanctuaryof a former Seattle synagogue, three women methodically move their hands from their stomachs to their hips to their breasts and back again. Theyare not just exploring Center for Victims of Torture when an agent stepped upto the driver’s window of her minivan. the case is set for Monday in Los PBI, Kathleen,” he said. “It's over.” For nearly two decades, Soliah had been hiding in plain sight, anything to do with the SLA’s vi olence. She ran to get away from the SLA, they say, and to escape just a few hours’ drive from her North Dakota birthplace. The "70s radical was ensconced in a suburban St. Paul neighborhood,living their bodies, but the notion that those bodies female bodies define theirroles in life. in a $280,000 Tudor-style home NancyBennett, a newcomer to filled with vining plants, knitted town, wanted badly to do this feminist play, and she shone. Theater director Mary Montgom- lap blankets and hercollection of Depression glass, ceramic Christ masvillages and porcelain dolls. ery waseager to cast this husky: voiced woman with fiery blue eyes and strawberryblond hair in an other piece, but after just four performances, Bennett wasgone. Friends and family could not reconcile the two pictures. Ontheoneside wasa gifted actress who cooked gourmet meals for the homeless and read newspapers tothe blind. Onthe other wasa revolution- “There was some urgencyto herleaving,” says Montgomery In the 23 years since, Mont- ary who belonged to the 1970s Marxist group that kidnapped newspaper heiress Patty Hearst, gomery had all but forgotten the youngactress. Then last summer, she picked up the newspaper and read aboutthe arrestof Sara Jane gunned downa California school superintendent and shotgunned a pregnant woman to death during a Olson, a 52-year-old doctor's wife, mother of three girls and respected local actress in Minnesota. The newsstory said Olson was actually Kathleen Ann Soliah —a bank robbery. member of the infamous Symbionese Liberation Army charged indicted Soliah on charges of helping to plant two nail-packed pipe bombs under Los Angeles Police cruisers. Neither exploded. Less than eight months before she took the stage in Seattle as Nancy Bennett, a grand jury had with trying to murderpolice officers. Last June 16, Sara Jane Olson Although Soliah was not charged in the bankheist, Hearst wrote in her autobiography that Soliah was oneof the masked rob- was on her way to teach an En- bers. Hearst is expected to testify Montgomery didn’t recognize either name,but she knewtheface immediately. It was Nancy. glish and citizenship class at the at Olson’s Feb.7 trial. A hearing in Angeles Superior Court Soliah's attorneys deny she had tough governmentaction against dissenters in that troubled time. Defense attorney Susan B. Jordan, who has represented other former SLA members, says Kathy Soliah is the same person she was in 1975. “She didn’t go from being a terrorist to an angel,” she say But did she do more than just change names? Sara Jane Olson was a good nameto choose. It fit well in the Scandinavian fabric of the Twin Cities. In 1977, Olson got a job cooking at the Chi Omegasorority house at the University of Minnesota, but had little experience preparing food for large groups. the newly independent African nation of Zimbabwe. Working through the interna: tional charity Oxfam GB in En. gland, the couple were placed in Mount Darwin, near the Mozam: bique border. In September1962, the family left Africa and eventu. ally relocated to Baltimore. Peter- son would studyat Johns Hopkins Medical School; Olson enrolled in the Baltimore International Culi. nary Arts Institute. were speeding tickets she got from running back and forth to all of her engagements. Thenitall came crashing down Olson was negotiating surren- der when the television show “America’s Most Wanted” aired a program on May 15 to mark the 25th anniversary of the deadly SLA shootout In June, she was on a plane to California for arraignment on the 23-year-old indictment Olson spent a monthinjail before a group of250 friends raised her $1 million cash bail Olson has come out fighting. She and the same friends who helped with her bail areraising defense funds. In late October, Olson accused Nick UU/The Associated Press Kathleen Ann Soliah, now Sara Jane Olson, at her hearing last Septemberin Los Angeles. mentin the late 1980s. But the the L.A. district attorney's office oftryingto put her on trial for SLA activities she had nopart in. Bortin also feels that Olson's bargain fell through when prosecutors failed torule out jail time. So Olson went abouther life. comfortable, middle-class life is three kids and was divorced and held against her byprosecutors. “If Kathywas caught, and she had lived in poverty, or near poverty, According to some reports, Olson, working through intermedi. aries, tried to reach a plea agree- it would be ‘Kathy who?’ bynow.” Family members say they re- sumed openrelations with Olson 10 years ago after an FBI agent told them she was nolongerofin UNDETECTABLE HEARINGAID... terest to the bureau. During all this time, the only run-ins Olson had with police (AIR a3DUCT CLEANING Thefollowing year, Olson met a ‘Whole House cai Duct Pros 3359719 a Pema ROSACEA SUFFERERS NEEDED Men and women at least 30 years of age with redness, pimplesandfine red blood Sse ssels across their cheeks are needed for aneight week Rosacearesearch studybeing conduct ‘ted by Dr. Leonard Swinyer of the Dermatology Research Center. Subjects must bein good health and females must notbe pregnantor nursing. 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