Word: unabom
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...from theso-called Unabomber: publish a long article detailing his views, and he'll end his 17-year terror campaign. ButPenthousemay take them off the hook. TIME New York correspondent Jenifer Mattos reports that Bob Guccione, chairman of General Media International, on Thursday issued an open letter to the Unabom suspect offering to publish the 37,000-word manuscript himself inPenthouse,OMNIor another magazine he owns "in the hope that it will receive the widest possible dissemination by the media so we can save lives." Guccione told TIME today that he couldn't understand other editors' uneasiness about the issue...
...question of motive is precisely the matter troubling investigators for the FBI, who believe the mail bomb that killed Mosser was the work of a devious serial bomber who has eluded them for 16 years. Their ongoing investigation -- dubbed Unabom because the criminal's early targets were people at universities and airlines -- has drawn together a string of 15 incidents since 1978 that have killed one other person and injured 23. But while authorities can say with certainty that this latest blast bears some of the Unabomber's trademarks -- the return address on the package named a fictitious sender...
...process, authorities say, is so time consuming that the bomber must be a loner. He may also be, warns San Francisco FBI special agent Jim Freeman, who is heading up the Unabom task force, "a quiet person, a typical 'nice-guy' neighbor...
...Unabom Strikes Again...
After a mail bomb killed Thomas Mosser, a prominent New York City advertising executive, federal investigators began dusting off old files and scouring the country for traces of the so-called Unabom suspect -- a notorious serial bomber with an apparent grudge against technology who in 15 attacks over the past 16 years has killed two and injured...