the fbi says patty hearst was picked up today in san francisco. er heiress has been missing for 19 months. >> by the time patty is finally apprehended, it's almost anticlimactic. patty's famous line when she's taken to the courthouse and asked her occupation, she replies, urban guerilla. >> miss hearst was brought into a group of young people who saw themselves as political idealists. their story seems to say something about the futility of terrorism as a shortcut for persuasion. but somehow the message doesn't seem to be reaching the weather underground or northern ireland or the middle east. >> good evening. for the second time in a month, arab terrorists have staged a bloody attack inside israel. >> it happened in a small settlement called ma'oalt, five miles from the border of lebanon. it began when the terrorists seized the high school. >> in the aftermath of the munich olympic attack, governments finally realized that terrorism was both evolving and becoming worse and therefore they had to confront the terrorists head-on. >> the terrorists ar

time to cool, and you don't have time to look at it too long, >> i'm working on another book on patty hearst. i'm just coming to the end of it, and now that i'm having fun, going around being in show business, and talking about this book, suddenly patty is sort of coming out of my fingers. >> do you find that's the difference between being a journalist and doing the "60 minutes?" the one is obviously more show business. >> i love being in show business. i finally made it. it took a long time, and i came from that background, but i always was hiding in the wings until. >> i didn't know, freddie came up to me today, we will talk about your dad in a moment, because that's kind of fascinating. i didn't know that he was such a well knowng we will talk about it in a moment. we will be right back. stay with us. [ music ] we are talking with shana alexander. your dad's name was ager, right? >> yes, it still is. >> well of course it is. >> he's older than george burns. >> really? >> yes, he's 83. he plays golf three days a week. >> and he's a songwriter. >> yes, he's a swell songwriter. "happy days a