"I told all of you for the last year and a half that we were going to catch them, but nobody believed me." With those uncharacteristically exuberant words, Special FBI Agent Charles William Bates, 55, celebrated last week's capture of Patty Hearst and her ragtag radical comrades. As chief of the FBI office in San Francisco, Bates doggedly led the nationwide hunt for 19 frustrating months. He had coolly endured newspaper complaints that the investigation was being badly run. Bates never responded publicly to the criticism, but repeatedly expressed confidence that his agents...
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