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RICHARD JEWELL Not a bomber, it turned out--just a bummer...
...appeal for leads and its reward are aimed at two distinct audiences. It is unlikely that this bomber acted alone, and in addition to any co-conspirators, there are probably friends, family members and neighbors with knowledge or suspicions that could help the investigation. "Even the accused Unabomber had family members who suspected him, and he was living alone in a shack in Montana," says Damon Camp, a criminologist at Georgia State University. At the same time, since the blast occurred in a densely occupied park filled with camera-toting tourists, the FBI is convinced that someone has a picture...
...sources who gave the FBI information on Jewell, ranging from his work history to his living habits, must be wondering today if the leads they provided helped keep the investigation focused on a probably innocent man. Still, the FBI is clearly hoping that popular interest in seeing the real bomber punished, and the lure of a $500,000 bounty, will keep those calls and photos coming...
Extremists in both parties either narrowly escaped or were forced into the witness-protection program in order to win. California's loopy "B-1 Bob" Dornan, who loves to brag about having piloted every bomber in the Air Force fleet, was in a dead heat with Loretta Sanchez in his increasingly Hispanic Southern California district. Even Jesse Helms, North Carolina's conservative firebrand, started sounding more tolerant about abortion, touted his ability to direct federal aid to his state after Hurricane Fran left $5 billion in damage and boasted of his success in protecting the state's tobacco and peanut...
Incumbent "Buck" McKeon took a conservative's distrust of government with him to Congress, but federal aid to his district after the 1994 earthquake softened that position. With a seat on the National Security Committee, McKeon is also an active proponent of more funding for the B-2 bomber, produced, not coincidentally, by companies in his district...