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RADICAL bombers have become rather sophisticated with explosives in the past few months, but on this occasion their timer was off. At 3:42 a.m., less than two minutes after police in Madison, Wis., received the telephone warning, a blast tore through the University of Wisconsin's Sterling Hall, destroying the math center and parts of the school's physics and astronomy departments. In the wreckage were the center's computer, valued at about $500,000, the lifework of five physics professors and the doctoral research of 24 Ph.D. candidates. And because the warning came too late...
...after the explosion, leaflets entitled "Why the Bombing" appeared on buildings and billboards in Madison. Signed "Life Above the Trees," the leaf lets claimed that the center's "role is to solve military problems, to design triggers for others to pull. Their research has killed literally thousands of innocent people and has developed instruments for delivery of nuclear and chemical-biological bombs." The message pointed out that the bombers had chosen a time when the building was least likely to be occupied-early morning, between scholastic terms-and had phoned a warning to police. Furthermore, the radicals complained rather...
Gang's Demands. In the ruins, Madison police, Army intelligence agents and FBI men found fragments of a Ford van that had been stolen from a university parking lot the week before. Police theorized that the bombers had loaded the van either with dynamite or plastic explosives and left it next to Sterling Hall...
...Weatherman faction of the splintered S.D.S. was involved in the Wisconsin bombing and has had a hand in most of the 150 major bomb and arson attacks in the U.S. in the past year. "It's going to get worse," Assistant FBI Director Charles Brennan predicted after the Madison explosion...
...annual budget of $10 million comes from sales of CR (60? on newsstands) and occasional books on consumer topics. Most of the revenue is turned back into more product testing. But this year $3,000,000 will be spent on what Consumers Union, in an uncharacteristic echo of Madison Avenue euphemese, calls "income procurement." That means promotion to sell more copies of the magazine...