Word: mayer
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Norman Mayer, there was method to his madness on the Mall. Always a loner, he singlehanded tried to halt the threat of one kind of annihilation with that of another and died as he had lived, alone, troubled, but strangely sympathetic. What began as a righteous cause for this polite and abstemious antinuclear advocate became an obsession and ultimately ended in a hollow if not insane act of protest. Yet before his bluff was called, Mayer, 66, a balding drifter, managed to frighten the city of Washington and stage a blatant and bizarre act of terrorism at the Washington Monument...
...area. Trapped inside the 555-ft.-high obelisk were eight people: six tourists and two U.S. Park Service employees. Shortly after noon, Associated Press Reporter Steve Komarow was selected as the emissary. Over the course of the next six hours, Komarow was to talk cautiously on five occasions with Mayer, whose vague but grandiose demand was that every organization in the U.S., from Kiwanis Clubs to Congress, give first priority, and the news media 51% of their total coverage, to discussing the "nuclear weapons question...
...Mayer has a past from all over the country, including arrests for prowling, assault and battery, narcotics trafficking, trespassing after warning, and distributing religious material," said a Miami police officer...
Police identified the man as Norman Mayer, age 66, of Miami Beach...
...Mayer had a long police record involving political incidents. He had spent the last several months living in a Washington hotel and demonstrating regularly in front of the White House