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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...
Meanwhile, FBI explosives experts concluded that the black box with the antenna clutched by Mayer was a miniature radio transmitter fully capable of detonating an explosion. Although the blast from 1,000 Ibs. of TNT would probably have only scarred the marble face of the monument, it could have sent out a concussive wave creating an arc of destruction from the White House to the Potomac. Seven nearby museums were evacuated, and a White House luncheon given by President Reagan was moved out of the room facing the monument...
...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...
...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