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ANTHRAX BREAK Investigators discovered anthrax on a letter at a Seymour, Conn., residence one mile from the Oxford home of Ottilie Lundgren, the 94-year-old woman who died two weeks ago of anthrax. CLUES The letter bore the same N.J. postmark as did those sent to Senators Daschle and Leahy in Washington, and the letters appear to have moved through the same sorting machine within seconds of one another. NEXT STEP Officials suggest that cross-contamination of mail could explain Lundgren's fatal infection and hope to find similarities between her case and that of the Bronx woman...
...probable existence of a fifth, sent to the State Department, could revitalize a case that has seemed in danger of stalling. The Leahy letter was unopened and had yet to be irradiated, which should give epidemiologists the ability to trace the lineage of the spores inside. The postmark, which showed that the letter was sent on Oct. 9, the same day the Daschle letter was mailed, may help postal inspectors locate where the letters were initially dropped off. But most important may be the identity of the target. While Daschle, the Senate majority leader, could have been chosen...
...Media tabloid. The newly opened FBI investigation into the NBC incident is independent, so far, of the probe in Boca Raton. But at least two of the incidents appear to be related: the letter to the Times and one of two sent to NBC both had St. Petersburg, Fla., postmarks, and both were addressed in a similar unsteady scrawl. Neither appeared to contain anthrax, however; the infectious letter at NBC turned out to be a different envelope, with a Trenton, N.J., postmark. The Times letter is being retested, since overnight assays like the one that initially cleared it are sometimes...
...half a dozen other cities with anthrax scares were also tested, and media outlets--including TIME--temporarily shut down mailrooms while they scrambled to beef up security. The Postal Service has issued new guidelines on how to do that (examples: don't open any mail on which the postmark and return address don't match; don't open unexpected mail from someone you don't know, especially if the address is handwritten). The FBI and the Centers for Disease Control, meanwhile, are trying to get a handle on the scope of the problem and beginning the painstaking detective work that...
...appear out-of-place, or carry restricted endorsements like “personal,” “private” or “to be opened by addressee only.” Packages with protruding wires, uneven weight packages or return addresses that differ from the postmark city should also be handled with care...