Reno Gazette-Journal from Reno, Nevada • Page 11

Californians keep guard up after Unabomber threats FBI follows leads: New details revealed in letter. white photo of a somewhat heavier man. One federal law enforcement source told the Times that officials now have more detailed sketches but would not say why the newer drawings have not been released or where they came from. Aside from air travel, the threat has disrupted mail delivery OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING Prisoner predicted big blast In the days leading to the Oklahoma City disaster, a white supremacist on Arkansas' death row predicted there would be a major bombing, according to the Arkansas Department of Corrections. Richard Wayne Snell, 64, who was executed for murder April 1 9, the same day as the Oklahoma attack, repeatedly told guards and his spiritual adviser about a pending bombing, said Alan Abies, a department spokesman.

they sought to find the bomber through the materials he used in this attacks. "We're trying to match up metal, trying to match up wood, any type of materials that have been used," said Mark Logan, special agent in charge of the San Francisco office of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and part of the federal Unabomber task force. Agents carried with them a widely circulated composite picture of a hooded suspect wearing glasses and an Army-type jacket, based on an eyewitness report in a 1 987 bombing in Salt Lake City. A San Leandro scrap metal dealer told the Los Angeles Times that FBI agents also showed him a second picture a grainy black-and- The San Francisco Examiner also reported Saturday that the Unabomber wrote to Penthouse Magazine, disclosing that the initials "FC" included in each of his communications stands for "Freedom Club." In the letter, the bomber claimed to have made his first communique 10 years ago, much earlier than previously believed. Meanwhile, authorities pressed on with the manhunt for the Unabomber and fielded up to 500 telephone calls coming in daily from the public.

The FBI didn't immediately comment Saturday on the status of the investigation. In Northern California, FBI investigators questioned owners and managers of scrap metal yards as erts said. Still, the Ventura couple and their two young children checked in for a flight at busy Los Angeles International Airport, where security remained tight following a threat from the Unabomber whose 17-year history of attacks has left three dead and 22 injured. In a series of letters to various newspapers last week, the Unabomber first threatened to blow up an airplane flying out of the Los Angeles airport by July Fourth, then claimed the threat was a prank. He also sent demands to the New York Times and the Washington Post offering to halt the killing if they published his lengthy manifesto renouncing industrial society.

LOS ANGELES (AP) The disturbing bomb threat, the taunting retraction, the terrorist demand none of these fazed Patricia and Tom Roberts until they drove to the airport Saturday morning. "We didn't think about it until we saw a bomb squad flying down the fast lane (of the freeway) heading toward the airport and then it made us nervous," Patricia Rob throughout the state. During the four-day Fourth of July weekend, 650,000 people were expected to bustle through Los Angeles International Airport. The FBI bomb squad cordoned off a large area after a telephone was discovered in the stall of a women's bathroom. Within 25 minutes, they determined the device was only a telephone.

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FBI recently obtained Snell's prison file from Warden Terry Campbell of the maximum security unit at Tucker, Abies said. tThe agency secured the file as part of an effort to determine who or what organizations may have assisted in the plot, say those familiar with the investigation. To date, only Timothy McVeigh, 27, and Army buddy Terry Nichols, 40, have been charged in the Oklahoma bombing which killed 168. Prison records kept by guards observing Snell before his execution showed that he was "smiling and chuckling" as he watched news reports of the bombing. He was executed by lethal injection later that day.

commented at least once (in his last week) that he wished he wasn't leaving; he'd like to stick around a few more weeks because he wanted to watch what was going td happen" in regard to a bombing, Abies said. Snell allegedly mentioned the possible bombing to his spiritual adviser, the Rev. Robert Millar, a white separatist and pastor in Elo-him City, a remote religious community in eastern Oklahoma. Millar couldn't be reached for comment. Two weeks before the Oklahoma bombing, Millar got a call from McVeigh.

Millar said someone else answered, and he never spoke to McVeigh. Millar said he didn't know who McVeigh was until the bombing. Millar was present when Snell was executed for the murder of a Texarkana, pawn-shop owner he mistakenly thought was Jewish. Detroit News Girl dies on roller coaster KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) A 14-year-old girl riding a roller coaster fell to her death, unnoticed by most of the other passengers.

A friend said the ride's safety restraints had come loose on a sharp turn at the top of a hill. Amusement park officials, however, said all restraints were in place at the beginning and the end of the ride, and that a lap bar could only be unlocked with a tool. Ryan Bielby of Kansas City died late Friday while riding the Timber Wolf roller coaster at the Worlds of Fun amusement park with friends. "Going by what some of her friends said, it appears they had just crested a hill and the car itself was making a sharp turn," police Sgt. Jim Keane said Saturday.

The highest point on the 2'2-min-ute ride is 100 feet, but it was unclear at what point the girl fell. A girl riding with Ryan told police that as the train crested the top of the hill, the lap bar and the seat belt came undone, Keane said. "She claims that she herself grabbed the lap bar and that's what kept her from leaving the car," Keane said. "The girl said she re-attached the equipment." The park was open Saturday but the Timber Wolf will be closed indefinitely. The roller coaster, built in 1989, has 4,230 feet of track and can reach speeds up to 53 mph.

It was the first fatality at the park, which opened in 1 973. Bodies found after Virginia flooding The body of a 3-year-old girl snatched from her grandparents by a roiling stream five days ago was pulled Saturday from the swollen Shenandoah River in Virginia. Rescuers also found a 64-year-old woman swept into a river by a mudslide, bringing the death toll to eight in more than a week of flooding from days of heavy rain. Searchers on jet skis found the body of the girl, Alexa Orantes, about 10 miles downstream from the campground where she was washed away in a flash flood on Tuesday, said Janet Clements, a state Department of Emergency Services spokeswoman. The body of the woman missing since a mudslide pushed her house into the Robinson River on Tuesday was found trapped in rocks.

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