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Admittedly, the danger presented by not adhering to Unabomber's demands is significant. More men like the timber company executive in Sacramento, Calif., who was killed last April, may lose their lives...
...officials and Sacramento, Calif. police squelched speculation thatthe Unabomberwas caught on a police videotape. The Los Angeles Times reported today that in April, police had taped bystanders in the area where timber lobbyist Gilbert Murray was killed by a bomb made by the terrorist. The man in question, who hurried away when he realized he was being photographed, bears a slight resemblance to the police sketch of the bomber, which itself is based on a brief sighting in 1987. But police now say the unidentified man appears to be about15 years older than the bomber is believed...
...Endangered Species Act is safe-- for now. In one of the most significant environmental rulings in decades, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 that the 1973 law prohibits not only direct harm to endangered species, but also to their natural surroundings. The timber industry and Oregon landowners, irked for years by costly protections the law afforded dwindling species including the infamous Spotted Owl, had argued successfully before a federal appeals court last year that the government's interpretation was too broad. (That decision said only direct threats, such as hunting or trapping, were covered.) Today's ruling, however,only accelerated...
...bomber reportedly mailed four such lettersfrom Oakland, California on April 20. That sameday he sent a package bomb that exploded on April24 in Sacramento, killing a timber industrylobbyist...
...believes thatthe Unabomberwas responsible for the mail bomb that killed a man in Sacramento yesterday, and some federal experts apparently think that the usually cold and logical killer is beginning to come apart. On Monday, a shoebox-sized package wrapped flawlessly in brown paper exploded when Gilbert Murray, a timber industry lobbyist, tried to open it. The Unabomber's previous attack killed a New Jersey advertising executive in his home last December.TIME San Francisco bureau chief David Jacksonnotes that it was not unusual for the Unabomber to send bombs in pairs, one a brief time after another. Over the past...