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Less serious, but no less rancorous or symbolic, was the allegation of censorship in the publication of the U.N.'s own 50th-anniversary commemorative book, A Vision of Hope. The editor, Jonathan Power, a British journalist, protested that the U.N. staff made extensive cuts in the manuscript that 15 writers had turned in. Power says more than 70 references were deleted and most focused on nations cited for abusing human rights or failing to sign the U.N. Universal Declaration of Human Rights...
...that he will kill again unless his 37,000-word document--allegedly authored by the terrorist group "FC'--is published in the New York Times and the Washington Post. After consulting with government officials, both papers have rightly balked at the Unabomber's insistence that they print his lengthy manuscript...
...precedent for publishing documents at the behest of terrorists also exists. In 1976, the Washington Post published a document by a Croatian nationalist who hijacked a New York airplane with 100 passengers. The Post printed the manuscript in small print on the bottom of the front page and the hijacker surrendered...
Nonetheless, in the interest of fairness the Unabomber should have a right to express himself freely and have a fair chance of having his manuscript printed in a newspaper...
...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