Word: unabom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What do chemistry problem sets, a manifesto, a picture of the Unabom suspect and a quote from former president Richard M. Nixon all have in common...
...says that at the time, Yale had a program in place for dealing with suspicious packages. But after the Unabom incident, the university provided additional training for its mail carriers and educational programs for the school as a whole...
...heart goes out to David Kaczynski. He made an honorable but surely agonizing decision to turn his brother Theodore over to the FBI as the Unabom suspect [NATION, April 22]. As if enough had not been asked of him, he had to see you question his motive for doing so. Time said, "Can anyone be sure that an apparent act of principle isn't also, ever so slightly, a subtle act of retaliation?" Your article failed to show any credible reason why David Kaczynski should feel a need to retaliate against his brother. I wish you had written an objective...
...until the search of Kaczynski's cabin, federal authorities were not totally sure that the Lincoln hermit was their man. No one had ever seen Kaczynski mail a bomb. Several clues the Unabom task force has long held in hand are not foolproof. The few fingerprints recovered from the Unabomber's efforts, say investigators, are missing the central whorls; even if Kaczynski's matched, a jury might not be persuaded. Unknown to many, the bombs had yielded bits of hair and fiber, but the cops could not be sure they were the perpetrator's. Nor were they sure they...
...graduate student who opened it. After that they came to an airline executive, the computer-science departments at Vanderbilt and Berkeley, a University of Michigan professor. He got better at it as he went along, a self-taught killer. The FBI shined him up with an '80s nickname--Unabom, for his favorite targets, universities and airlines. And as it became clear that all the attacks looked to be the work of one man, the Unabom task force was born...