Word: timbers
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
...Supreme Court began hearing arguments today on a case that will determine whether the Federal Government has been wrongly interpreting theEndangered Species Act. Lawyers for the timber industry argue the act calls for the federal government to purchase privately held land when the land is critical tosurvival of troubled fish or wildlife, while the Clinton Administration defends the government's right to impose restrictions over commercial activities on private property to protect endangered species. The case centers on Oregon loggers who want to cut trees on private lands that are the habitat of the threatened northern spotted...
Weld, touted as presidential timber for months, said his 11-year-old daughter gave him another reason to stay home in '96: She read aloud to him a newspaper article about Chelsea Clinton's life in the public eye and said, "Daddy, you cannot subject me to this...
...Nixon met privately in the Biltmore Hotel in Los Angeles. It was a clap on the back for the Governor, who at the time was trailing Brown in the polls by 20 points. Over Diet Cokes, Nixon reminded Wilson that as the Governor of California, he was automatically presidential timber. Nixon thought the moderate side of Wilson-his pro-choice stand, for instance-would be attractive to Democratic voters. And Wilson? "He was the would-be Jedi knight," recalls Ken Kachigian, a close Nixon adviser who was there, "kneeling at the foot of the master, as Yoda spouted wisdom...