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...demand from the Unabomber: publish his 35,000-word anarchist manifesto, and he'll end a 17-year campaign of murder through the 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...
...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
...they have nothing left to lose." At least 42 have been killed and dozens more wounded in two days of fighting. Some 200 Chechens are holding about 1,000 residents of the town hostage. Chechen General Jokhar Dudayev denies any connection to the rebels, who aredemanding that Russia halt all military operations in Chechnya. One group of gunmen, holed up in the city's hospital with 300 hostages, including pregnant women and small children, has threatened to shoot 10 captives for any Chechen killed by Russian soldiers...
What is more surprising is that Dennett alsotakes on eminent scientists like Steven Jay Gould,Noam Chomsky and Roger Penrose, each of whomattempts to introduce some kind of skyhook thatwill put a halt to the evolutionary explanation ofhuman capabilities. The nature of Dennett'sdisagreement with his foes is often obscure, andthere is such a flurry of names and citations thatthe inattentive reader will probably begin to justtake Dennett's word for it. What it all comes downto is that Dennett sees Darwin's dangerousidea--that everything from consciousness to ethicscan be explained by the function of naturalselection over time...
...Bosnian Serb stronghold of Pale to join the Greek foreign and defense ministers who are thereto try to negotiate a quick release. Despite Milosevic's assurances, the Bosnian Serbs appear to be digging in their heels, saying they won't release any more hostages without a UN pledge to halt air strikes. In Sarajevo, theBosnian Serb troops continue to harass UN peacekeepers. Three Canadians were taken into custody today; they were already counted among the hostages since their movements had been closely restricted...