
                         Roanoke Times
                 Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.

DATE: WEDNESDAY, August 2, 1995                   TAG: 9508020061
SECTION: NATIONAL/INTERNATIONAL                    PAGE: A-6   EDITION: METRO 
SOURCE: The Washington Post and The Associated Press
DATELINE:                                 LENGTH: Medium

PAPERS PRINT UNABOMBER `MANIFESTO'

The Washington Post and The New York Times today published excerpts from a ``manifesto'' written by a terrorist known as the ``Unabomber'' and sent to them in June with a proviso that if either paper published the 35,000-word document, he would not kill again.

Both newspapers published 3,000 words of material excerpted from the manifesto in connection with stories saying the FBI has mailed copies of the documents to dozens of university professors in the hope one of them might be able to identify a former student or colleague from the writing.

The publishers of each paper said they haven't decided yet rather to print the entire 35,000-word document, titled ``Industrial Science and Its Future.'' But they indicated that the decision to publish the excerpts was made jointly and in consultation with government officials.

The FBI has given copies of a 35,000-word manifesto written by the terrorist known as the Unabomber to dozens of university professors in the hope they can identify the writing as the product of a former student or colleague.

The bomber is believed by authorities to be responsible for killing three people and injuring 23 since 1978.

Many of the professors shown the manuscript, a learned screed against technology, are experts in the history of science.

``What we're trying to stress is this whole idea of the history of science, and people who might have been in the right places at the right time, who have maybe seen or heard comments from someone whose words and writings are very similar to this,'' Terry Turchie, assistant special agent in charge of the San Francisco-based UNABOM Task Force, said Tuesday.

Members of the task force believe the bomber was exposed to the history of science or some related discipline in the late 1970s in the Chicago area, possibly at the University of Illinois at Chicago or at Northwestern University, where the first two bombs were found.

The FBI believes he then moved to the Salt Lake City area in 1980 or 1981, then finally to Northern California, where he may have had ``some sort of contact'' with the University of California at Berkeley, in the words of an FBI statement to be made public today. Bombs were placed in a computer science building at Berkeley in 1982 and 1985.

``Obviously, the Unabomber knows his way in and around a college campus. Whether or not he's been successful in achieving advanced degrees is subject to speculation,'' said Jim R. Freeman, special agent in charge of the San Francisco office.

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