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May 25-26, 1978:A package is found in a parking lot at the University of Illinois in Chicago and is taken to Northwestern University in Evanston because of the return address. It explodes when it is opened on May 26, injuring Terry Marker, a security guard.May 9, 1979:Graduate student John Harris is injured by a bomb at Northwestern University. Nov. 15, 1979:Twelve people suffer smoke inhalation when a bomb explodes in a 727's cargo hold during an American Airlines flight, forcing an emergency landing at Dulles International Airport near Washington.June 10, 1980:United Airlines President Percy Wood is injured at home in the Chicago area.Oct. 8, 1981:A bomb is found in a business classroom at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City. No one is injured.May 5, 1982:Janet Smith, a secretary, is injured by a bomb at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. The package was addressed to computer science professor Patrick Fischer. July 2, 1982:Diogenes Angelakos, a professor of electrical engineering and computer science, is injured in a faculty lounge at the University of California at Berkeley.May 15, 1985:Graduate student John Hauser is injured by a bomb in computer room at the University of California at Berkeley. June 13, 1985:A package-bomb that was mailed to the Boeing Co. in Auburn, Wash., on May 8 is discovered and disarmed. Nov. 15, 1985:A package-bomb mailed to University of Michigan psychology professor James McConnell injures his assistant, Nicklaus Suino. McConnell, standing nearby in his Ann Arbor home, isn't hurt. Dec. 11, 1985:Hugh Scrutton, 38, is killed by a bomb near his computer rental store in Sacramento.Feb. 20, 1987:Gary Wright is injured by a bomb left behind a computer store in Salt Lake City.June 22, 1993:Charles Epstein, a geneticist at the University of California at San Francisco, is injured by bomb sent to his home. June 24, 1993:Computer scientist David Gelernter of Yale University in New Haven, Conn., is injured in an office.Dec. 10, 1994:Advertising executive Thomas Mosser, 50, is killed by a bomb sent to his North Caldwell, N.J., home.April 24, 1995:California Forestry Association President Gilbert Murray, 47, is killed opening a mail bomb in the group's Sacramento headquarters. June 24, 1995:Letter mailed to the Washington Post with the manifesto.Letter mailed to the New York Times with the manifesto.Letter mailed to Penthouse publisher Bob Guccione. June 24, 1995:Letter mailed to the San Francisco Chronicle - airliner threat. Last week of June, 1995:Letter mailed to the magazine, Scientific American. June 28, 1995:Letter mailed to the New York Times.Letter mailed to the Washington Post. June 29, 1995:Letter mailed to Tom Tyler, a University of California, Berkeley, social psychology professor.April 3, 1996:Theodore John Kaczynski, 53, taken into custody by federal agents. April 5, 1996:Kaczynski charged with possessing the bomb components and held without bail. April 30, 1996:Kaczynski appeals to Supreme Court to be released due to government leaks. June 18, 1996:Kaczynski indicted in Unabomber attacks.
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Making bombs in an isolated, one-room shack in remote Montana with no plumbing or electricity is not the behavior of a normal "solitary'' or loner personality, says Dr. John M. Oldham, chief medical officer of the New York State Office of Mental Health. Indeed, the behavior of Theodore Kaczynski, the Unabomber suspect, "is way beyond normal.'' Using "100% speculation - just guesswork,'' Oldham muses Kaczynski might be a mix of at least two personality styles gone amok. Kaczynski might display a "solitary,'' or loner style that went over the edge to become a schizoid personality disorder. And he might have a ``vigilant'' style gone to the extreme of paranoia. According to Oldham's book, The New Personality Self-Portrait, people with schizoid personality disorder "live in a walled city deep within themselves, far away from other people. They are not antisocial; they are asocial - they want nothing to do with you.'' Even "mildly schizoid men and women who on the surface seem somewhat sociable prove flat, empty, passive, unresponsive or just indifferent when you try to get to know them.'' Paranoid people, Oldham says, "expect the worst of others. They're apprehensive, suspicious, uncompromising and argumentative, and they're convinced of their rightness beyond the shadow of a doubt. Individuals with paranoid personality disorder are on guard against a hostile universe where bad things happen or are always about to happen to them at the hands of other people.'' They "must not let down their guard and give way to trust and intimacy, lest the other person take advantage of their weakness.''
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