Pubdate: Jun 22, 1998 VOL. 151 NO. 24
Source: Time Magazine
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Author: Belinda Luscombe

PATTY'S PARANOIA PAYS OFF

When you've lived as strange a life as PATTY HEARST's, you learn not to do
things regular people do, like open your mail. According to the New Yorker,
Hearst's lawyer has a few questions for the Drug Enforcement Agency after
the heiress received an odd parcel, called the two numbers on its address,
found they were pay phones and immediately called the cops. Had she opened
it, she would have found $20,000 to $40,000 worth of drugs. She was informed
of this by the DEA officials who showed up on her doorstep moments after her
call to police.

The agents were actually going to arrest her, but were stymied because she
had already reported the package. Hearst believes the incident has something
to do with the presidential pardon she's seeking. 

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