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From: anton@ucbvax.ARPA (Jeff Anton)
Newsgroups: net.rumor
Subject: Re: Any news about the reputed bomb explosion in the UCB CS Dept?
Message-ID: <7962@ucbvax.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 8-Jun-85 18:38:12 EDT
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Posted: Sat Jun  8 18:38:12 1985
Date-Received: Mon, 10-Jun-85 12:49:22 EDT
References: <1457@utah-gr.UUCP> <8@ucbcad.UUCP> <157@jendeh.UUCP>
Reply-To: anton@ucbvax.UUCP (Jeff Anton)
Organization: University of California at Berkeley
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In article <157@jendeh.UUCP> arash@jendeh.UUCP (Arash Farmanfarmaian) writes:
>> 
>> 	It wasn't a letter bomb, it was a package that was left in the 
>> 2nd floor terminal room.  Last I heard, the police beleived that it was 
>> rigged to explode when opened, instead of being timed.
>>
>> 	Peter Moore
>
>	In some corners of the world this is not even worth a one-line mention
> in a newspaper. Take Labanon for example. Or Kuwait. Or Iran. Maybe some middle
> east student was getting home sick.
>	Don't bother flaming about this one. I come from the same corner of the
> world. Not that I understand the motivation behind these acts. Then again 
> there are some professors I wouldn't mind seeing a meeting such a fate. 
> Especially the ones that give you a 'C' for not attending lectures.
>
>			Arash Farmanfarmaian'85
>-- 
>Arash Farmanfarmaian
>...!allegra!princeton!jendeh!arash
>
>		"Any man who lives within his means suffers from a lack of
>		imagination"

Mr. Farmanfarmaian may simply be reminding us all about the unpleasentness
that we all know happenes in this difficult world.  However, this
incident is serious enough to question his intentions.  My office is
just a few feet away from where the explosion happened and if I
were not in a conference I would have heard it.  We do get bomb
threats here, sometimes with annoying regularity.  His reference to
professors is also disterbing since a professor had his fingers
sevearly damaged about 3 years ago in another explosion down
the hall from this last one.

Berkeley counter culture nature is well know and accurate.
There have, to my own knowledge, been no statements of responcibility
received.  If Mr. Farmanfarmaian has any knowledge of these matters
I hope he has the intention of speaking up about it.  Otherwise,
I feel he is only feeding the fire.
-- 
C knows no bounds.
					Jeff Anton
					U.C.Berkeley
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					anton@berkeley.ARPA