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...today that in April, police had taped bystanders in the area where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed by a bomb made by the terrorist. The man in question, who hurried away when he realized he was being photographed, bears a slight resemblance to the police sketch of the bomber, which itself is based on a brief sighting in 1987. But police now say the unidentified man appears to be about15 years older than the bomber is believed...
...mail. Both newspapers received the mailed document Thursday. The newspapers would have to print three follow-up messages a year, and the Unabomberhas not promised to halt a campaign of blowing up buildings or other property.The offer has thrown the journalistic world onto the horns of a dilemma: "The bomber might be satisfied or he might not be," says Everette Dennis, executive director of the Freedom Forum Media Studies Center in New York. "The ante might go up. How about 24 hours on CNN? A half hour on the nightly news...
...another reputed Unabomber letter, mailed in Davis, Calif., surfaced at the offices of The New York Times and The Washington Post today. If either paper publishes the 35,000-word manuscript, which rails against a corrupt industrial-technological society, the bomber would stop killing people. The newspapers would have to print three follow-up messages a year, and the Unabomber has not promised to halt a campaign of property damage.Unabomber Page
...short memory, we decided to play one last prank to remind them who we are," reads a letter sent to The New York Times and authenticated by the FBI last night. "But, no, we haven't tried to plant a bomb on an airline (recently)." The serial mail bomber,who since 1978 has mailed or planted 16 package bombs that killed three people and injured 22, also offered an apology of sorts for the past:"We don't think it is necessary for us to do any public soul-searching in this letter. But we will say that...
...blow up an airliner out of Los Angeles International Airport some time during the next six days. To prove that the writer of this letter knows something about FC, the first two digits of their identifying number are 55." The FBI saysthe letter resembles others from the mysterious serial bomber,who has been blamed for 16 mail bombings since 1978 that killed three people and injured 23. In an unusual -- perhaps unprecedented -- warning, the Federal Aviation Administration warned California airline passengers to be alert to suspicious bags, parcels and other items...