Conference back40::soapbox

>    Will this move OJ off the front page?

Not likely, since this is the first I've heard of it and you say the story is
a week old.  Of course, I haven't seen anything about OJ on the front page for
a while, either.

Bob

    Bob:
    
    Been on National News and Washington Times front page Saturday, Sunday
    and yesterday...haven't seen today's issue yet.

I think I heard this AM that Judge Ito sent everyone home for Christmas until
after January 4th or the like. I don't think OJ will get much front page
for a while unless some of the major players croak or something.

    unAbomber.
    
    UNiversities and Airlines, the kinds of organizations most of the
    bomber's victims have worked for.  all victims have been prominent; the
    most recent was just featured in a bidness mag of some repute.
    
    in 16 years, he's killed two and injured 23.  for someone who has a
    deep hatred of technology, he sure makes use of it.  the most recent
    bomb was roughly the size of a vhs videotape and was sufficient to
    decapitate the victim and blow holes in the counter and wall.

Why did the Unabomber target this particular victim?

CBS news reported last night that the Young and Rubicand ad executive
was responsible for ad campaigns for high-tech companies.  Among those
companies was Digital Equipment Corporation.

Chilling.

    .5
    
    speculation is that victim was involved in high-tech and had just been
    featured in a mag, this bringing him to bomber's attention.

FBI Asks For Public's Help Via Internet 


    The FBI has set up an Internet site for public help in its
    investigation of the  UNABOM incidents. 

    The site, which contains information on the serial bomber and on the $1
    million  reward offered for his capture, is reached two ways. The first
    is by connecting to an  Internet server and typing: 

telnet naic.nasa.gov 

login: gopher 

password: your e-mail address 

Choose No. 9 Government Resources off the menu 

Choose No. 11 FBI Gopher 

    The site also may be reached with a World Wide Web browser. At the
    prompt, type  in http://naic.nasa.gov/fbi/ to get to the address. 

    The FBI warned that it is a federal offense to leave false information
    or  otherwise engage in unlawful actions at either address. 

    People with information also may call the FBI's UNABOM Task Force at
    1-800-701- 2662. 

    FBI Traces Tips On Serial Bomber / But agents are no closer to catching
    mystery killer 


    Michael Taylor, Rob Haeseler, Chronicle Staff Writers 

    The FBI task force investigating the UNABOM slaying of a New Jersey
    advertising executive said yesterday that it has been deluged with
    telephone calls over its  toll- free bomber line, receiving 3,100 tips
    since Monday morning and sending agents to  check personally on some
    600 of them. 

    But so far, despite what the FBI called an extensive investigation of
    all leads  that have poured in, nothing has brought agents closer to
    catching the bomber. 

    Pleading once again for public help in solving Saturday's killing of
    Thomas J.  Mosser, as well as 14 other incidents since 1978 attributed
    to the mysterious UNABOM  killer, the FBI's top agent in San Francisco,
    Jim Freeman, said the case will be cracked  when members of the public
    notice or remember something about the few scanty clues in  the case
    that so far may have seemed unimportant. 

    ``We're encouraging the public to come forward,'' Freeman said, ``and
    we're  utilizing publicity on a national scale, like the $1 million
    reward and the toll-free  number.'' That number is 1-800-701-BOMB.
    Anonymity will be granted to callers. 

    The agents hope, for example, that someone might recognize a brief
    handwriting  sample the FBI believes was written by the bomber last
    year and inadvertently included  in a letter the bomber sent to the New
    York Times. 

    Freeman also revealed for the first time that the name on the return
    address on  the package mailed December 3 from San Francisco to
    Mosser's home in North Caldwell, N.J., was H. C. Wickel. The
    typewritten return address was Department of  Economics, San Francisco
    State University. 

    ``No H. C. Wickel is, or has been, attached to San Francisco State,
    either as a  professor or student,'' said Dennis Hagberg, the chief
    U.S. Postal Inspection Service  officer in San Francisco. Even though
    the 45-agent UNABOM task force said it came up dry when  it started
    checking out people with the last name of Wickel, Hagberg urged the 
    public to ``think if that name means anything to anybody, and contact
    our hotline.'' 

    ``We've talked to families named Wickel,'' Freeman said, ``but that has
    been unproductive.'' 

    In fact, the use of a realistic- looking return address is a well-
    known part of  the modus operandi of the UNABOM suspect, who is thought
    to be a white male in his late  30s or mid-40s. Other packages or
    letters he has mailed in the past had return  addresses of people at
    various universities. 

    The bomb that killed Mosser when he opened it in his kitchen was ``the
    size of  two videotapes stacked together,'' said Paul Snabel, chief of
    the San Francisco  office of the U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and
    Firearms. 

    Snabel said task force investigators are asking people to recall
    whether they  had any ``houseguests who asked them to mail something,''
    or if they knew people who  were in the Bay Area on temporary
    relocation from a job elsewhere. Snabel said the  device that killed
    Mosser was a pipe bomb but that investigators have yet to find the 
    initials ``FC,'' a clue found on pieces of other bombs the suspect has
    crafted in the past. 

    One other clue was the phrase ``Call Nathan R Wed 7 pm,'' the writing
    impression  that was lifted by laboratory technicians from a letter the
    bomber sent the Times in  June 1993, at the same time two UNABOM bombs
    injured two professors, one in Tiburon and the other in New Haven,
    Conn. 

    Snabel said agents believe that ``it's a message, a notation he was
    making to  himself or a family member.'' 

    When it comes to bombings, California is the leader, the ATF says. 

    Between 1989 and 1993, the bureau counted 1,599 bombings and attempted
    bombings  in California, representing 17 percent of all such incidents
    nationwide. For the  same period, Florida came in second with 822
    incidents, followed by Illinois, 617; Arizona,  472; and New York, 432.
    A total of 258 people died, including 70 in 1993. 

    Not only did California outpace all other states, but the number of
    bombings in  the state nearly doubled between 1989, when 203 were
    recorded, and 1993, when 405  occurred. 

    New Jersey, where Mosser was killed, had only 191 bombing incidents
    from  1989-93, accounting for a scant 2 percent of the national total. 

    Revenge -- said by the FBI and ATF to be the motive in the UNABOM
    bombings -- accounted for 1,119 explosive incidents and 974 incendiary
    ones in the five  years analyzed by the ATF. 

    Until 1991, pipe bombs were most often used in destructive devices.
    They were outnumbered by bottles the following year. In the five-year
    period up to 1993,  3,081 pipe bombs were responsible for 46 deaths and
    391 injuries nationwide. 

    According to the FBI, the UNABOM suspect has used pipe bombs in all but
    one of  the 15 devices attributed to him. 

    The ATF reported 86 mail bomb incidents from 1989-93 that killed eight
    people  and injured 47. 

    
    Mr. U has apparently not had an NT demo.  After a few hours on our
    own "U", I might click on the pipe-bomb icon myself...
    
      bb

	WRKO was discussing the response from Bob Guccione (_Penthouse_)
	to the request for publication of the unabomber's manifesto
	(14.1738).  Mr. Guccione thinks it might save lives.  Good
	idea or bad idea?  Or has this already been discussed and I missed
	it? 

    Guccione thinks it might sell magazines.

	.11  yes well, clearly.  ;>

    Bad idea but Bob has been known to be an opportunist.  It is black
    mail, they should not be published.  IMO etc.
    
    Brian 

     It is indeed, blackmail, but one wonders if publishing the "manifesto"
    might clue in a neighbor or acquaintance into the identity of the
    unabomber, thus securing a more expeditious arrest.

    
    	There was something in the Worcester Telegram yesterday about the
    	Unabomber, but I didn't get a chance to read it.
    

	He or she is terrorizing Nobel prize winners.

>	He or she is terrorizing Nobel prize winners.

I'll betcha old Nobel is rolling over in his grave wishing he'd selected
another line of work.

 I dunno, Jack...handing out prizes must be pretty neat.




 Jim

    evidently, the unabomber sent two warning letters which was identified
    by the FBI as being very different from his normal method of operating.
    
    these guys are shook-up (of course). while the FBI treated it with a
    cautious reponse it seemed to me that they thought it might not be
    the unabomber's work.
    
    Chio

    
    nobel was an explosives chemist was he not?

    Invented dynamite, I believe.

    Yes, he did.
    
    Another one of these families/companies who have their fingers
    everywhere you didn't expect them.
    
    So check your <......>
    
    
    Heiko
    

    
    re: .20
    
    and would've been arrested today in the good ol USA for making an
    "infernal" machine...
    

    Alfred Nobel was not an "explosives chemist."  He was a manufacturer,
    inventor, and philanthropist.  He invented dynamite as a way to make
    nitroglycerine, which he did not invent, easy to handle.  Pure
    nitroglycerine is a soupy yellowish liquid that will explode if
    subjected to a relatively mild concussive shock.  Suspending nitro in
    fuller's earth, which is the essence of Nobel's invention, cushions it
    and prevents such explosion.

    
    The FBI has authenticated the Unabomber's latest threat: that he will
    bomb a flight out of L.A. or San Fran sometime in the next six days.
    
    Needless to say, security has been beefed up.
    

Why do they publicize that crap? It will most likely influence some idiot
to plant a bomb in a package and try to get it onto a plane so he can
"fulfill the prophecy".

    Interesting thought:
    
    What if the bomb has already been planted?
    What if he plants the bomb on a plane flying INTO Los Angles/San Fran?
    
    Interesting question.....
    
    Dan

    

    	Were I scheduled for a trip to Calif in the next week, I would
    	cancel it.

 My 12 year old son is scheduled for a trip to San Jose, Calif on Saturday.



 Jim

    Sounds like he's having a tantrum over the fact that these amateurs in
    OK are getting all the press.

    this guy is very scary...
    
    my wife and i were talking last night about this scum bag. imagine this
    piece of wasted life holding thousands of people hostage, lat alone the
    murders he's committed and the injuries.
    
    one more example in support of capital punishment.

    
    NOW Unabomber is saying that the whole thing was just a hoax to make
    sure the public hadn't forgotten about him/them.
    
    Security will continue to be high, however.
    

    Did anyone notice the news clip that showed all the mail that is
    stacking up in a hangar at LAX?  This wingnut is a master at letter
    bombs as we all know; but aren't officials going to have to deal
    with moving this mail sooner or later?
    
    

re: .-1

Martin - perhaps your oreos are . . . 

    Ya mean they've been squished under a big pile of mail ! :*( {sniff}
    
    Ahhhhh but I could make Oreo Ice Cream..... Now there's a thought !!!
    
    hmmmmmm ice-cream.... {homer}

    
    `Penthouse' says they will publish Unabomber's 35,000 word manifesto.
    

    ...which they will doubtless put up on their Web site, thus clogging
    the Internet and causing the downfall of our nation.  It's all that
    acceptance of gay sex, you know, I mean, really, they even print
    pictures of women pretending to go at it with other women.

Unabomber threatens `Penthouse' if they publish his manifesto.

Not classy enough.


Phil

Are they going to do a pictorial on "Girls of the Bomb Squad?"

Or maybe on "Explosive Sex Toys?"

    >Unabomber threatens `Penthouse' if they publish his manifesto.
    
    >Not classy enough.
    
     Unabomber threatens retaliation if Penthouse is the only periodical to
    publish his manifesto.

RE: 174.42 by WAHOO::LEVESQUE "the countdown is on"

Maybe we should see if "Slut" is interested?

     or _Barely Legal_

    
    Excerpts from the Unabomber's manifesto were published in two major
    US newspapers yesterday (NY Times & Washington Post).  Clues in the 
    text indicate that Unabomber was a student of the history of science 
    in the late 1970s, probably in the Chicago area, later moving to Utah, 
    then northern California.
    

    He's going to get caught soon.

    They say this guy is a genius.

    They're stroking him so he'll be even more careless.

    
    The full text of his manifesto is being circulated amongst university
    professors to see if anyone recognizes his theories or style.
    

    It's Carl Sagan.

    
    Beverly??
    

    His wife?

    The professor and mary ann.....

    I guess they'll have to call him the "Multabomber" now.

Why?  Has he bombed any Multics sites?

    	I read somewhere that he is called the Unabomber because he
    	originally targetted universities.  (Though it made me wonder	
    	why he wasn't then called the unibomber...)

UNiversities and Airlines.  hth.

    Ah that explains it.  I though he only had one testicle.

No, that was Hitler.

So today the Times and the Post publish the guy's garbage, and the rest
of the media, in an attempt to appear public minded, is "questioning"
the validity of their action, no doubt to throw folks off from the more
serious problem: Reno and the FBI's advisement to the papers to publish the
manifesto is an open invitation to terrorists worldwide to be heard in the
USofA, compliments of your Clinton Government.

Watch for all the Fundie Moslem and IRA wacko terrorists coming to a public
facility near you, soon!

    Apparently the Unabomber hasn't heard that old cliche' "you can
    lead a horse to water".......
    
    So his manifesto gets published; big deal.  Does he really expect
    that all the folks who normally buy those papers, will wade thru
    the entire bloody thing?
    
    Someone asked in another note why those papers just didn't put
    the manifesto out on their web sites, but I think the UnaBee
    demanded that it be printed; and since he's definitely known to
    carry out his threats......
    

    
    	And not everyone has Web access, so the newspaper will probably
    	[potentially] reach more people.
    

    besides, it would send the irony meter off the scale for his diatribe
    against industrialization and technology to be placed on the WWW.

    
http://www.yahoo.com/Society_and_Culture/Crime/Crimes/Terrorism/Attacks/UNABOMBER/
    
    
    You can count the minutes until the full "manifesto" will be on the
    web.
    
    								-mr. bill

    If it's there, then this is a definite "gotcha" for the web
    surfers :-)
    

    http://www.pathfinder.com/pathfinder/features/unabomber/manifesto.html
    
    								-mr. bill
    
    

    You have to follow 8 links to get it all, actually, its serially linked
    below the first section, which Mr Bill gave the pointer to.
    
    DougO

    
    Mr. Bill,
    
    Thanks for the pointer...my bird was desperately in need of a new cage
    liner.
    
    ;^)

    Kudos to DoctahSan for katching my point about Ye Manifesto appearing
    in Newbie Electronic Web vs. on Traditional Cellulose Web.  I, too, was
    imagining Himself going ballistic if that's the only outlet they were
    to give him...  Not a pretty sight...
    
    (I was mildly diverted last June at the Newspaper Convention to find
    that there were TWO kindza web being talked aboug there -- yep, they
    call those huge rollza newsprint "web.")
    

    
      Actually, I might read a bit of this some time.  I have a certain
     morbid curiosity, and enjoy reading things I vigorously disagree
     with.  If I could get through Mein Kampf and Das Kapital, admittedly
     at a younger age, why balk at this ?
    
      bb

>Watch for all the Fundie Moslem and IRA wacko terrorists coming to a public
>facility near you, soon!

    Too late. You've already had Gerry Adams. Oh, sorry, keep forgetting
    he's Sinn Fein and they're not linked with the IRA, except when
    it comes to coffin carrying time.
    
    Barry.
    
    
    

    
    >             -< Wonder what makes him tick, so to speak... >-
    
    BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAH ! ! ! !
    
    :-))))
    

    In a CNN report last night, it was stated that the newspapers
    agreed to go ahead and print the manifesto because:
    
    	a)  they wanted to prevent additional people from becoming
    	    victims and,
    	b)  they were hoping someone might recognize the dude's
    	    writing style (apparently they are convinced that he 
    	    probably has advanced college degrees.
    
    

    can someone scan his manifesto into the box? 
    
    

re: .77
>                -< Iwant to read it. >-
>
>    can someone scan his manifesto into the box? 
    

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    He's still there!
    
    Not Roger

    
    
    	He probably won't strike again.
    
    	The news reported that he was just arrested.
    

    get outta here!  really?  

    
    
    	A relative turned him in, and they have been watching
    	him apparently for months.
    
    

    well it's about time!

    Well, I guess all his relatives will have their 
    property confiscated now.....
    

       No, I heard they raided the place he was living in Montana but he 
    wasn't there.
    -ss

    Latest buzz on TV is that they are investigating someone; he's
    a his residence, but still hasn't been arrested.....yet.
    
    

    He's in custody. I think everybody's going to become experts in
    spelling (polish? chechen?) surnames. The guy's last name is full of Ks
    Cs, Zs and Ys.

    
    	Kaczynski.
    

    gesundheit

    Interesting how this guy is a Harvard grad and taught at UCal Berkeley. 
    But hey, I don't know what I'm talking about anyway..that's what
    everybody says.

    
    	Ummm, no, that doesn't look quite right.
    
    	Not enough k's.
    

  .90  my brother's a Harvard grad, but he has never taught at UCal
       Berkeley, so prolly the chances are good he won't end up becoming
       a radical nutcase, sending bombs through the mail.  phew.

    But he might if he teaches at Brown!

    For such a nutcase enviro-wacko, unabom sure liked to pick off them
    helpless cute li'l furry critters to feed his festering gut...
    
    must be environuts are allowed to hunt and eat meat only if they are 
    crazed mad bombers. 

    re .94,
    
    don't you realize hunters are the original environmentalists?  Without
    appropriate habitat, none of us will have anything to plug, except each
    other.
    
    meg

    no, I'm not antihunting, just being my usual cynical self.
    I dunno if mr unabom was a greenpeacer or not, just judging from his
    rants against technology and industry, figured he was another deranged
    treehugger who really went bad.
    
    must be all that poached red meat gave him dain bramage ;-)

    I think Mr. Unabom was more of a Luddite than a tree-hugger.

FBI focus turns to travels of Unabomber suspect


Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net
Copyright &copy 1996 Reuter Information Service 


HELENA, Montana (Apr 7, 1996 6:24 p.m. EDT) - FBI agents piecing
together evidence left by Unabomber suspect Theodore Kaczynski are
focusing on periodic bus trips made from his recluse's shack in the
mountains of Montana, law enforcement sources said on Sunday.

Authorities say they are confident the Harvard-educated former
mathematics professor, who is being held in the county jail in Helena, is
behind a string of 16 mail bombings that killed three people and wounded
23 others beginning in 1978.

Justice Department officials are expected to meet on Monday with
federal prosecutors from across the country to determine how to proceed
in the case.

A federal grand jury in Great Falls, Montana, will begin hearing
evidence against Kaczynski on April 17, but there is pressure to move the
case to northern California, where two of the Unabomber's victims were
killed.

Following Saturday's discovery of a live bomb under the bed, agents
were searching the cabin where Kaczynski lived without electricity or
running water and the surrounding woods.

They used X-ray machines and other equipment to inspect dozens of
boxes that already have yielded chemicals, electrical devices, handwritten
manuals and partially completed bombs.

In order to keep Kaczynski in jail, he was charged with possessing
bomb-making components.

No evidence has been disclosed of how he might have travelled from his
remote cabin near the town of Lincoln, Montana, to Sacramento,
California, Salt Lake City, Utah, and other sites where bombs were
mailed or delivered.

Before his arrest on Wednesday, investigators said they were compiling a
record of his travels and taking registration records from cheap hotels in
Helena and northern California, according to managers of the hotels.

They also have been contacting bus drivers and ticketing agents for
information about a man who lived virtually outside society and left little
of a paper trail.

Stacie Fredrickson, a ticketing agent for Greyhound bus lines in Butte,
Montana, said on Sunday she had been contacted by federal authorities
about a week ago and shown a picture of Kaczynski.

"They just asked if I recognised this guy and I said I did," she said.

Fredrickson said she remembered Kaczynski from a bus trip sometime in
the past five years "because he looked like a geek."

Kaczynski reportedly also was known to bus drivers on the Rimrock
Trailways line, which operates out of Helena, 60 miles (100 km) from
Kaczynski's cabin near the Continental Divide.

It was at the Kaczynski family home in Lombard, Illinois, where the
suspect's brother, David, found writings resembling those of the
Unabomber, providing the FBI its breakthrough tip in the case.

David Kaczynski, who lives in Schenectady, New York, has made no
public comment on the case, although CNN reported that his lawyer
plans a news conference on Monday.

David Kaczynski is listed as a co-owner of the 1.4 acre (.46 hectare)
property where his brother lived, and the family provided financial
contributions to support the reclusive former professor, according to a
source quoted by U.S. News and World Report.

One lingering question left unanswered even by the Unabomber's
published 35,000-word manifesto against technology's effect on society,
published by the New York Times and Washington Post, was how he
chose his targets, who included university professors, an airline
executive, an advertising executive and a lobbyist.

    
    .95
    
    >    don't you realize hunters are the original environmentalists? Without
    >    appropriate habitat, none of us will have anything to plug, except
    
    	Seems funny that the environment has more friends than enemies
    	and it's still losing. (Pity the more because what a force they 
    	make together, hunters and environmentalists, those few times 
    	that they do work together. I blame both sides equally for not
    	making it happen more.)
    
        Back to the thread...
    
    
    	The Unabomber fight seems to be more against science than
        pro-nature. Less of what he loves and more of what he hates.
    
    	
         

    AOL's top story of the hour around noontime said that Kaczynski is
    known to have been in San Francisco when the bombing happened there.

    
    	Geez, you're saying San Francisco and I'm thinking Oklahoma.
    

    <---  those were quite funny
    	  Thank you Shawn for posting them
          Kaczynski is nuts!

    
    Labounty rattles.
    Oh joy, a haiku comes.
    I striketh him in the head with a pool cue.

    incorrect haiku parameters.

    Z   Richard Ramirez from sdsu.edu at Tuesday, Apr. 9, 1996, 10:30pm ET
    Z   Psycho Killer, je
    Z   Ques que c'est, fa fa fa fa
    Z   fa fa fa fa fa
    
    Well, at least he likes Talking Heads.
    
    This was one of the songs that inspired Hinckley to shoot Reagan.  He
    went to a concert in Dallas the week before and this song was sung by
    the Kamakazi Clones.

    Unabomber sings
    A lonely song of hatred
    For worldly machines.

	Educated Math
	A skill for chemical bath
	The world felt his wrath.

Unabomber stinks
Bombs, bike, typewriter his toys
Low tech boy pays price

    Wonder if his family turned him in for the reward? ;-}
    

    >Wonder if his family turned him in for the reward?
    
    His family has stated that they'll turn the $1M over to the
    families of Unabomber victims.
    
    DougO

    
    
    <-------
    
    
    
    Integrity, compassion and honesty...
    
    
    
    What's this world coming to?????????????????

 thud.

The radio news report last night said that some of the things found in his cabin 
included:

	o guns (including a homemade one)
	o bomb materials
	o gun powder
	o AND! 232 books

Coupling the last item with Janet's performance since '93, I better start looking over my 
shoulder.  With over 1000 books in my house (no counting what's on CD-ROM) my piddling 2 
guns probably won't even count as a drop in the bucket when Janet breaks down my door.

    
    	For his sake, I hope none of those books are on the "banned list".
    

    
    Another leftist wacko.
    Sierra club wannabe.
    Blame upon militia.
    

    
    	Ummm, that appears to stray from the accepted 5-7-5 format.
    

    in that case, 
    
    A leftist wacko
    Sierra club wannabe
    Blame talk radio
    
    5-7-5

    I wonder if one of his books was AlGore's "Earth in the Balance".
    a truly inspiring work. NOT!

Kaczynski's spiral -- boy genius to '60s wallflower
to embittered hermit


Copyright &copy 1996 Nando.net
Copyright &copy 1996 The Associated Press 

(Apr 20, 1996 11:41 a.m. EDT) - Theodore Kaczynski carefully twisted
the small piece of paper in the middle and cupped the two ends. In one,
he placed a few drops of ammonia. In the other, iodine. He closed the two
ends, gave it to a high school classmate and told her to untwist the
middle.

The chemicals ran together. The little device exploded in her hands with
a harmless pop. Ted laughed. So did the surprised girl.

"You're going to get suspended," Jo Ann De Young recalled telling him.

"No, I'm not," Ted replied. "I'm too smart."

Too smart to get caught. Too smart for high school. Too smart to take
advice from his professors at the University of Michigan. Too smart to
get wrapped up in the turbulence of Berkeley in the late '60s. Too smart
to fall for the myths of an industrial society.

Too smart for his own good, he would eventually acknowledge.

Three decades later, living alone in a Montana cabin with two tiny
windows, Kaczynski would write a plaintive letter lamenting his
childhood as "a genius in a kid's body."

By then, he had turned into a kid in a genius' body. A warped, bitter,
malevolent kid, say federal investigators who are convinced he is the
Unabomber.

And one who had lost his last spark of humanity along the way, said a
woman who tried to reach out to him only months before he abandoned
his efforts to build a life at the University of California-Berkeley.

Graduate student Harriet Hungate took Kaczynski's topology class. He
impressed her.

"He was this young guy, tall and good looking, and had all the outward
manifestations of someone who would be very sociable," she said.

Hungate needed someone to talk to. She was in crisis, thinking of
dropping out, "hanging in there by the skin of my teeth."

She went to Kaczynski's office for a conference. She asked questions
about the course, but then her emotions took over. She spilled out her
fears and doubts, looking to her professor for warmth and reassurance.

His response chilled her. Kaczynski didn't acknowledge she had spoken.

"There was no reaction at all," Hungate said. "Usually there's a person
in there who responds to what is said, but I looked in his eyes, and I saw
no person there."

------

Contrary to some accounts, there were no clear signs of his eventual fate
in Ted's early life.

Yes, he was hospitalized with a drug reaction at 6 months old, and came
home listless. Yes, he was smarter than his peers, and didn't mix with
everyone.

But in his early days in the Chicago suburbs, he was no embittered loner.

His father, Theodore R. Kaczynski, was a gregarious, happy man who
loved the outdoors, camping and canoeing, and taught his sons to do the
same. Friends said the sausage factory owner was also an atheist who
liked to consider the big questions of life.

Ted's mother, Wanda Kaczynski, was no overbearing tyrant driving her
son beyond his capacity. Counselors and teachers -- not his parents --
suggested Ted skip his junior year in high school, according to his
chemistry, math and physics instructor, Robert Rippey.

The parents "just wanted him to have a good time, to do the things that
interested him and not be bored," Rippey said.

Years later, from Montana, Kaczynski would write raging letters
blaming his mother for his social incompetence, calling her a "dog."

That's not the way neighbors in Evergreen Park remember it.

"They were a happy family, a productive family, civic-minded, extremely
intellectual," said Dorothy O'Connell, who lived beside them from 1952
to 1958.

"Wanda was very interested in reading to the children. She read
Scientific American every month to Teddy. She was a born teacher. She
was able to translate those difficult subject matters into understandable
language for her son," Mrs. O'Connell said.

Given Ted's choice of reading matter, it does not appear his mother was
forcing Scientific American on him.

Once, as the Kaczynskis packed for a vacation in Wisconsin, Ted ran to
Mrs. O'Connell's house, asking that she care for his pet bird.

She noticed a book under his arm.

"I said, 'What are you doing with a book when you're going on
vacation?' I thought it would be a storybook."

It wasn't. Ted was carrying "Romping Through Mathematics, From
Addition to Calculus."

"He said, 'I have to learn this.' He was happy."

Ted reveled in his intelligence.

He sometimes joined the neighborhood women playing Scrabble.

"Within minutes, he had all of us beaten," Mrs. O'Connell said. "We
were not dumb. Teddy was brighter. At 12, he had a better vocabulary
than we did."

The Kaczynskis were terrific neighbors, bringing groceries when the
O'Connell home was quarantined after her daughter contracted polio.
Dorothy O'Connell remembered Ted and David buying Good Humor ice
cream bars -- then sharing them with the younger neighborhood
children.

Although he learned hunting skills from his father, Ted was no casual
killer. Once, his brother David found a lame rabbit. Together, the father
and two sons built a cage, nursed it back to health and let it go.

While some neighbors remember Ted walking home alone from school
day after day, others remember a different boy.

Wayne Tripton lived across the street -- and in another world. While
Ted's pocket protector and briefcase proclaimed his nerdiness, Tripton's
engineer boots, jeans and leather labeled him a greaser.

"Ted and I were friendly enough to say hello despite the fact that we
were different," Tripton said. "It was like he and I both knew he wasn't
supposed to socialize with my kind and I knew very well I wasn't
supposed to socialize with a bookworm."

Ted was proud of his intellect and studies at a time when such kids were
picked on, teased, and occasionally beaten up just for fun, Tripton said.

"Quite frankly, I had an overwhelming admiration for Ted."

But as Ted's peers grew older, he somehow didn't. A gap began to grow.
No one ever saw him with a girlfriend or on a date.

Patrick Morris was president of the Math Club at Evergreen Park, in the
band with Ted and took classes with him. He remembers a spindly,
skinny kid who seemed vulnerable, certainly not dangerous.

"The thing that runs through my mind is how young he was, how
juvenile he was in the best sense and worst sense of the word," Morris
said. "At a social level, he was not traveling at the same rate as the rest
of us."

Classmate James Baker, who later joined the Marines, put it simply.

"He was a boy among men," Baker said.

Ted's humor, especially, seemed childish and insecure. If someone spilled
something at the lunch table, everybody would tease the spiller, then
drop it. Not Ted.

"Ted wouldn't let it go," Morris recalled. "He would zero in."

Pranks were common at Evergreen High. Kids carried firecrackers and
threw them in the street. Frogs were stuck in desks.

Ted's were more complicated. He pulled the ammonia-iodine trick
several times. He, Morris and other chemistry students manufactured a
chemical that exploded when thrown on the ground, flashing and leaving
a smoke trail.

"We did trade around bomb recipes," Morris said. "We put together some
stuff and set it off. Gunpowder is easy to make. There are some easy
recipes you can make out of stuff from your medicine cabinet."

Once, Morris said, it went too far.

A fellow student asked Ted's advice on making a better bomb. Ted
obliged.

"The dumb kid went ahead and he did it. Hit it up with a hammer. It
blew out two windows in the chem lab" and damaged a girl's hearing.

Morris is convinced Ted was unfairly punished for that incident.

"It never entered Ted's mind that this was a dangerous thing," Morris
said.

As high school ended, Ted's future seemed assured. Harvard accepted the
math whiz, and off he went to Cambridge, Mass., in the fall of 1958.

That may have been a terrible mistake for the immature Ted, said
Evergreen Park classmate Russell Mosny, one of his best friends.

"Here's this kid, probably an emotional age of 12, 13 at best. He went on
to a preppy, patrician, jock residential hall, I can't think of anything more
contrary," Mosny said. "He had absolutely nothing in common with
these people."

The biggest blow at Harvard, says Richmond Campbell, who arrived at
the same residence as Kaczynski in his freshman year, was the shock of
learning you are no longer a shining star.

Ted was only 16 -- but there were 10 other 16-year-olds admitted by
Harvard the same year.

The group at 8 Prescott St. where he lived was especially impressive: The
son of Welsh poet Dylan Thomas. A student published in the Journal of
Symbolic Logic while in high school. A freshman taking advanced
exchange courses at the nearby Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

"It was quite overwhelming coming from high school and thinking you
were quite bright, and being just a nobody there," Campbell said.

At Harvard, the prankish behavior -- and much of Kaczynski's
personality -- seemed to disappear. Those who remember him didn't call
him Ted -- it was Theodore.

He became the wraith described by those who knew him in later years,
gliding through his classes and residences like a shadow.

Holed away in Room 2, a single on the first floor, Kaczynski befriended
no one, said his freshman proctor Francis Murphy.

"He was a lonely boy," thin, quiet and with poor personal hygiene and a
dirty room, Murphy said. "But he was very proud to have come to
Harvard. He was always very busy and his energies were devoted to his
work."

In his sophomore year, Kaczynski moved to Eliot House, one of several
upper-class residences that serve as combination dormitory, dining hall
and social club. He took the smallest, cheapest room in the building.

"It was purgatory," said Irvin Bieser Jr., who lived on the same floor as
Kaczynski for one year.

His door was always shut, and even some who shared the suite can
barely recall Kaczynski. He emerged only to eat, always alone. He was
among only six of the 139 house residents from his class who left no
record of involvement in extracurricular activities.

Richard Adams, who attended Harvard on a Navy scholarship and lived
in Eliot, said Kaczynski didn't fit in with the wealthy, well-tailored "den
of preppies."

"I would certainly think if I were to try to analyze his character and
where he went off the track, that would have to be an area that would
deserve a lot of consideration," Adams said.

Some former Eliot House residents remember Kaczynski in his junior
year at a table with a suite-mate Michael Rohr, described by one as the
"high priest" of a group that pondered environmental issues long before
the subject became fashionable.

"It is not too much to say they were absolutely rabid on the subject," said
a classmate, Frederick Boersma. "That was their creed, protecting the
environment."

But typically, Rohr, now a philosophy professor at Rutgers, said neither
he nor his friends remember Kaczynski being there.

Increasingly isolated, Kaczynski took to bringing sandwiches from the
dining room upstairs to his room, which soon began to smell of spoiled
milk, rotting food and foot powder. Bieser said he caught a glimpse of the
room once when the floor was two-feet-deep in trash.

When he left Harvard, Kaczynski's reputation for brilliance had suffered.
He didn't graduate with honors. Math faculty members don't remember
him.

For graduate school, Kaczynski chose another location known for its
progressive politics and political fervor -- the University of Michigan at
Ann Arbor. But once again, he seemed to ignore the call that so many of
his academic contemporaries heard. As students were shifting to jeans
and T-shirts, Kaczynski stuck with a white shirt and tie.

Math faculty classmate Alan Heezen said there were picnics and parties
but Kaczynski didn't attend.

"Other people had a life. This guy apparently didn't," he said. "At
Michigan, it was accepted to be pathologically involved in mathematics.
... It's not extraordinary that I didn't know him. But I've talked to five
other people. Nobody knew him. Now that is extraordinary."

While Kaczynski may have been a mystery to his classmates, he was
certainly impressing his teachers.

"He was one of my best students, one of only four students who got A's
in the class I taught," said Peter Duren, who sat on the committee that
judged Kaczynski's doctoral thesis.

Kaczynski also took one other class that seemed a foretaste of his
changing values -- Human Evolution. He earned Professor Frank
Livingstone's first A-plus in five years.

But he stuck with math as his focus, earning a cash award from the
department for his thesis, an extremely technical document titled
"Boundary Functions." Duren was concerned that Kaczynski had chosen
to work in a mathematics backwater.

When Kaczynski got a job at the University of California-Berkeley, a
temple for mathematicians, Duren hoped that his star student would tap
into his colleagues and work on more exciting math principles. He didn't.

If Cambridge and Ann Arbor were in social and political ferment,
Berkeley was close to revolution when Kaczynski arrived in the fall of
1967 to take a position in the math department.

At Sather Gate, the entrance to the Berkeley campus, Black Panthers
sold Chairman Mao's little red book for a dollar a copy. Anti-Vietnam
War protesters gathered frequently at Sproul Hall to hear David Harris
and Joan Baez urge resistance to the military-industrial complex. Wes
"Scoop" Nisker signed off his underground radio newscasts with his
trademark, "If you don't like the news, go out and make some of your
own."

All the ingredients for the Unabomber's philosophy were there, said
Nisker, who still does radio commentary in San Francisco.

"A lot of what the spirit of the '60s rebellion was about was challenging
the myth of progress -- challenging the machine," Nisker said. "Part of
the anti-war movement was an anti-technology movement, and you can
still see that today with environmentalists."

But if the '60s was a giant party, Kaczynski was a wallflower.

On the surface, at least, he seemed oblivious to it all. Other math
professors took votes among their students on canceling classes for
anti-war teach-ins or Third World strikes. Kaczynski held every lecture.

He seemed equally oblivious to his students and fellow faculty members.
Lecture hall questions were left unanswered. Invitations for beer and
pizza after math seminars were spurned.

Instead, he walked home to his small apartment, where he apparently
worked on some of the six mathematics papers he published. All dealt
with boundary functions, the same closed-end, arcane backwater of
mathematics he had explored at Michigan.

"I've been struck by the narrowness of the field," said Thomas Addison,
math department chairman at the time. "If he was coming up for tenure,
they would probably have been concerned. This was not the hottest
thing."

If, between math books, Kaczynski read the prototypical underground
newspaper, the Berkeley Barb, he would have read the column of "Dr.
Hip," who dispensed candid advice on sex and drugs at a time the topics
were taboo.

"Dr. Hip" was Dr. Eugene Schoenfeld, now a psychiatrist who also
works as a forensics consultant for San Francisco and Alameda counties,
and has followed the Kaczynski case.

Kaczynski shows all the signs of someone who had bottled up his fear
and anger since childhood, perhaps because of trauma or depression,
Schoenfeld said.

Schoenfeld believes that Kaczynski chose Berkeley to liberate himself --
but instead withdrew totally when his unrealistic expectations failed.

Addison described Kaczynski as "almost pathologically shy." Schoenfeld
agreed.

"He can't experience strong feelings," the psychiatrist said. "He fears he
will be overcome by the vehemence of his feelings if he confronts
someone, or gets involved in a cause. He would be a puddle."

Schoenfeld sees a strong echo of that pathology in the Unabomber's
manifesto, where the author writes that "oversocialization can lead to
low self-esteem, powerlessness, defeatism, guilt ..."

Those are the writings of a man who is describing himself, justifying his
internal pain and the wall he has erected around him, Schoenfeld said.

As Kaczynski's academic life imploded, Berkeley's worst crisis climaxed
a block from his apartment. In February 1969, demonstrations began as
students tried to preserve a plot of university land they called People's
Park. In May, authorities moved in amid clouds of tear gas, and shot a
student to death. Then-Gov. Ronald Reagan vowed that if students
wanted a bloodbath, he'd give them one.

A month later, Kaczynski packed his bags and left Berkeley. Addison
heard a rumor he wanted to pursue social work. Oddly, the same rumor
had circulated at the University of Michigan when he left there.

But the last time anyone from Berkeley saw him, Kaczynski was hiking
in Yosemite National Park. Alone.

The family has said Kaczynski spent the next year or two in Utah, but if
so, he used an alias or didn't leave a trace. His name shows up nowhere.
No one remembers him. Two people who thought they may have seen
him now acknowledge their perceptions of those brief encounters are
clouded by drugs and the passage of time.

In 1971, the Kaczynski brothers bought the now-famous 1.4-acre plot of
land outside Lincoln, Mont. Kaczynski built his cabin and seemed to
retreat further inside himself. Human contact virtually ended.

As children in Evergreen Park, he and his brother had once saved a
rabbit's life. Now Kaczynski found himself hunting and killing rabbits to
survive.

The emotions that built inside him came out in letters and acts directed
against people at safe distances -- just as the Unabomber would soon
attack and kill at safe distances.

One letter called a service station owner who Kaczynski felt had cheated
him a "fat con-man." His mother was a "dog" in another letter. A
neighbor's unoccupied cabin was trashed after Kaczynski complained
their snowmobiles disturbed him.

He complained in person only to the phone company. He couldn't
successfully operate their pay phones even though the instructions were
written on the front.

But poverty, and perhaps loneliness, eventually drove Kaczynski out of
his Montana cabin in 1978 and back to his family in Chicago.

He had failed in his attempt to go back to the land, to live in harmony
with nature.

The Unabomber's first crude device exploded in Chicago shortly
afterward. In May 1978, a small bomb made from match heads slightly
injured a Northwestern University police officer.

Authorities at the time dismissed it as a student prank -- hardly more
serious than the little devices Kaczynski and his chemistry class friends
once built.

But if Kaczynski's attempt to live off the land was a failure, his return to
civilization turned into an unmitigated disaster.

He took a job at the foam rubber plant where his brother worked, and
dated a woman supervisor. She ended the casual relationship after two
dates because they had nothing in common, but Kaczynski wouldn't let
go.

Typically, his revenge for being spurned came not in a direct
confrontation, but in nasty limericks posted on machines. His brother
David fired him because of the harassment.

After his firing, Kaczynski returned to Montana. His appearance
deteriorated, his clothes and beard turning ragged and unkempt. He
apparently never bathed.

And inside his dimly lit shack, he turned into a modern-day Madame
Defarge, the peasant in "A Tale of Two Cities" who secretly recorded the
crimes of the French aristocrats in her knitting to send them to the
guillotine after the revolution.

The aristocrats Kaczynski targeted in his writings were the techno-elite
destroying what radical environmentalists called "Wild Nature," both
inside and outside the human heart.

The Unabomber, meanwhile, had begun his bloody work. Before he was
finished, three would die. Twenty-three people were injured.

Like Kaczynski, the killer enjoyed writing disparaging letters.

He called the FBI "a joke." Victim David Gelernter, a Yale computer
scientist badly injured by a bomb, was later taunted for his supposed
stupidity in opening the package.

The words "smart," "dumb" and "brains" all appear in the first
paragraph of the Gelernter letter -- the sign of an author obsessed with
his own brain, Schoenfeld said.

But in May 1994, just months before the Unabomber's last orgy of
bombings and threats disrupted air travel and led to the publication of his
manifesto, Kaczynski couldn't help wondering what might have been.

He wrote Juan Sanchez Arreola, a friend of his brother's he knew only
through letters, to commiserate over a pension dispute.

And to look for a little commiseration himself, perhaps.

"Consider that your fortune is not all bad, because you have a wife and
three children and all are healthy ... " Kaczynski's letter said. "Your
children will thrive, and some day they will have children of their own. I
wish I had a wife and children!"

But when agents searched Kaczynski's cabin, his only offspring was a
dangerous, carefully wrapped package, complete with everything but the
addressee.

The package, like the little boy who was just too smart, was a bomb
waiting to go off.

Unabomber reign of terror spanned 17 years 


(c) Copyright 1996 Nando.net 

Reuters 

SAN FRANCISCO - Following is a chronology of the Unabomber's
deadly 18-year bombing spree:

+ May 26, 1978 - Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois: a bomb
detonated when a university police officer opened a package handed over
by a professor whose name was written on the package. The officer
suffered minor injuries.

+ May 9, 1979 - Northwestern University: an explosive device left on the
university's student commons exploded, slightly injuring a graduate
student who opened it.

+ Nov. 15, 1979 - Chicago: a bomb wrapped in a parcel mailed from
Chicago exploded in an airplane's cargo department. Twelve people
suffered from smoke inhalation.

+ June 10, 1980 - A Chicago suburb: a bomb inside a package mailed to
an airline executive's home exploded as he opened it, injuring him.

+ Oct. 8, 1981 - University of Utah, Salt Lake City: An explosive device
was found in a classroom building hallway. Bomb squad personnel
disengaged the bomb, rendering it safe.

+ May 5, 1982 - Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee: A pipe
bomb inside a wooden box detonated when the box was opened by a
secretary in the computer science department, injuring the secretary.

+ July 2, 1982 - University of California at Berkeley: A small pipe bomb
found in a coffee room by a professor of electrical engineering and
computer science exploded, injuring the professor.

+ May 15, 1985 - University of California at Berkeley: A bomb exploded
in a computer room, impairing the vision and tearing off fingers of the
graduate student who opened it. The bomb was believed to have been
placed there days earlier.

+ June 13, 1985 - Auburn, Washington: A parcel bomb received in the
mail at Boeing Co. exploded when employees discovered it and opened it.
No one was injured.

+ Nov. 15, 1985 - Ann Arbor, Michigan: A parcel bomb mailed from
Salt Lake City to the home of a University of Michigan professor injured
a research assistant who opened it.

+ Dec. 11, 1985 - Sacramento, California: The owner of a computer
store was killed when he picked up a bomb disguised as a road hazard
marker. Shrapnel tore into his heart.

+ Feb. 20, 1987 - Salt Lake City: Another bomb disguised as a road
hazard marker was left near a computer store. It exploded and injured
the store owner.

+ June 22, 1993 - Tiburon, California: A renowned geneticist received a
package in the mail holding a bomb. It exploded when he opened it,
seriously injuring him.

+ June 24, 1993 - Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut: A package
received by a computer science professor exploded when he attempted to
open it, severely injuring him.

+ Dec. 10, 1994 - North Caldwell, New Jersey: A New York City
advertising executive was killed in his home when he opened a package
addressed to him.

+ April 24, 1995 - Sacramento, California: The president of the
California Forestry Association was killed when he opened a package
addressed to someone who once worked in his office.

+ June 28, 1995 - San Francisco: The San Francisco Chronicle
newspaper received a letter threatening to bomb a flight out of Los
Angeles International Airport.

+ June 1995 - The Unabomber contacted the New York Times and The
Washington Post saying that if they would print his manifesto of ideas
within three months he would stop killing.

+ Sept. 19, 1995 - Washington, D.C.: The Washington Post and New
York Times publish the 35,000-word manifesto.

+ April 3, 1996 - Theodore Kaczynski, former university math professor
identified by law-enforcement officials as the prime suspect in the
bombings, is taken into custody for questioning as FBI agents search his
Montana home.

+ April 4 - Kaczynksi makes his first court appearance and is formally
charged with illegal possession of bomb-making components. He does
not enter a plea and a federal judge orders him held in U.S. custody
pending further proceedings.

    
    
    
    .120 Iodine and Ammonia explode? 
    
    	  Did anyone know this before this article. 
    
    	  Just curious if this was some common lore that I missed
    	  growing up.
    
    

    .122
    
    The product is called ammonium tri-iodide.  It is famous in most
    college chem labs, along with its close cousin nitrogen tri-iodide, for
    its extreme instability.  One common trick, which I was never party to
    when I lived in a boarding high school, is to mix it up in a suitable
    amount of pure alcohol (which keeps it from exploding) and paint the
    solution on the floor.  After it dries, the pressure of a person's shoe
    when walking is sufficient to cause a series of POPs.

    
    
    >.123
    
    >One common trick, which I was never party to when I lived in a
    >boarding high school,
    
    
     You're probably lying...
    

Also, if the person walking on was barefooted, then he/she/it was likely to get 
some 1st and 2nd degree burns from it.

re .123:

Actually the product is nitrogen tri-iodide (NI3) "stabilized" by ammonia.
It is ridiculously sensitive, esp. dry.

Ammonium triiodide (NH4I3) is another chemical and is non-explosive.

    .126
    
    Well, there I go again...  Once again proven imperfect.  I think I'll
    go out and eat worms.

    
    	RE: once again proven imperfect
    
    	I'd think that if you were proven imperfect once it would have
    	sufficed, Binder.
    

re .127:

Can I watch?

    
    	If you find more than you can eat, would you mind bringing
    	some over to my house and letting them loose on the lawn ?
    
    	Thanks in advance,
    	Karen
    

    robert Hienlien had quite a bit of information on iodine and ammonia
    derived explosives in "Farmer's Freehold."  I first read about it in
    1973.  Isn't that the stuff in "sidewalk Poppers?"
    
    meg

Heinlein.

nnttm.

> Isn't that the stuff in "sidewalk Poppers?"
    
No.  The ammonia/iodine stuff is much too unpredictable and sensitive for them.
 It may go off if you look at it crosseyed.  Or it may not.

Snappers contain silver fulminate, I believe.

    >  robert Hienlien
    
    Robert Heinlein
    
    >  "Farmer's Freehold."
    
    Farnham's Freehold.
    
    
    Illiterates.... sheesh.....

    So I can't spell and my memory isn't what it was.

Nitrogen Tri-Iodide. HS chem teacher showed us how to make it in '63. He
even used to sell us the Iodine crystals and concentrated Ammonium Hydroxide
to make it.

Until some idiot painted it on someone else's locker door.

Math stuff:

http://www.rpi.edu/~bulloj/tjk/tjk.html

Janet Reno to seek the death penalty for Kaczynksi.

    think she'll find it?

    she's a niiiice lady.
    
    
    YUUUUUUUUEEEEEUUUUUUUUGH!

    regardless of how niiiice she is or isn't, i would expect no less
    and support it.