Unabomber

HELENA, MONT. -- Unabomber suspect Theodore J. Kaczynski yesterday was ordered moved to Sacramento, Calif., to face charges in four bombing attacks that killed a lobbyist and a computer store owner and maimed two university professors.Federal District Judge Charles C. Lovell issued the order, and the U.S. Marshal Service said later that Kaczynski will arrive in Sacramento Monday night.He is scheduled to be arraigned Tuesday before Magistrate Judge Peter A. Nowinski, the U.S. attorney's office in Sacramento said.

NEW YORK -- Breaking his public silence, David Kaczynski described in an interview how he had reluctantly come to the "horrible" realization that his older brother, Theodore, could be the Unabomber. He recounted his anguished decision to turn him in to prevent more lives from being lost, and he pleaded that his brother, if convicted in the fatal bomb attacks, be spared the death penalty.Over six hours on Tuesday, David Kaczynski recalled how, at first, he had resisted his wife's suggestions last summer that Ted might be the Unabomber.

COLD SPRING, N.Y. -- Kirkpatrick Sale stands by his gray '92 Volvo. He is all in denim: jeans and jacket. He has a thin, vertical face and the pale unruddy flesh of a lifelong vegetarian; he is wary of inimical substances in the food chain.At 58 his beard is gray, the same color as his hair, which is long and sweeps back manelike: he is leonine; he is a gray lion with a soft voice, a lion without swagger.He dwells most of the year in this riverside town, an hour by train from Manhattan. It is a town of modest buildings, with about 2,000 residents.

NEW ORLEANS -- One of the cruelest assignments I ever gave my students was to read the entire Unabomber Manifesto from the Washington Post. In addition, they were to write an essay on it.It is a testimony to their toughness that they got through the whole text without dropping the class.To tell you the truth, and this confession will get me in big trouble, I couldn't get past the middle of it. My eyes glazed over, the pencil fell from my hand and I fell into an agitated sleep wherein I stood before my class, which had somehow grown to millions of people, and they were all shouting at me: ''You Are Trying to Bore Us To Death!

MY FIRST ENCOUNTER with a "brilliant" mathematician like the Unabomber suspect was stunningly memorable.I was in my second year at Carnegie Tech in Pittsburgh at the time, taking a course known as Linear Algebra. The course was taught in a semi-amphitheater classroom in a building that housed facilities for the school's ROTC program including a military amateur radio station.The class was taught by a purportedly brilliant, Harvard-trained mathematician with a doctorate degree. He had the physical appearance of a long, white string with a vacant face that failed to reveal anything to the rest of the world.

I CAME OF age worried about being blown up by a government. As a first-grader, I was trained to dive under a desk in the event of a nuclear attack. As a college sophomore, I watched an attack nearly materialize, in the Cuban missile crisis.My generation associated technological mayhem with governments. Most of us worried about the Soviet government. Not a few worried about our own.Today, technology is democratized, and so is mayhem. Now we worry about being blown up not by governments, but by individuals -- unabombers, anti-abortion extremists, Islamic jihaddists with designs on the World Trade Center, private militiamen targeting federal buildings.

FREDERICKSBURG, Va. -- Clint Van Zandt has a particular skill and partly because of it Theodore J. Kaczynski, the suspected Unabomber, is in custody today.It all began for Mr. Van Zandt with a call in December to his home in Fredericksburg. A woman investigator from Chicago wanted to know if what she had heard about him was true:Could he compare separate documents and determine if they had been written by the same person? Not by the handwriting, but by the vocabulary, sentence structure, the punctuation?

BARNESVILLE, Ohio -- Nearly two centuries ago, the Luddites of England smashed machines and burned factories in their rebellion against the Industrial Revolution, and then were relegated to history books as dunderheads and barbarians.Now the Luddites are back, although in a much milder form. About 350 self-proclaimed Luddites have gathered in an old Quaker meetinghouse in Barnesville, warning that the ballyhooed information highway is the road to ruin and that isolation and alienation are increasing in a culture where people do not sit face to face, but instead interface.

WASHINGTON -- Federal law enforcement officials said yesterday that agents searching Theodore J. Kaczynski's Montana cabin had found the original typewritten manuscript of the Unabomber's 35,000-word manifesto, a powerful piece of evidence that has convinced the authorities that they have the long-sought serial terrorist.Elated officials said the recent discovery of the manuscript in the cabin capped a week-long search of the remote mountain cabin, in Lincoln, Mont., that has so far yielded a trove of physical evidence that prosecutors hope will provide them with an incontrovertible case against Mr. Kaczynski.

BOSTON -- I can't bring myself to hate the Unabomber. Quite the opposite; I find his story curiously affecting.The original Unabomber -- the anonymous, hooded fellow, hiding behind aviator glasses -- was uninteresting, a freak, a nobody. But Theodore Kaczynski is someone very interesting indeed.Like his brother David, I am horrified by the three murders attributed to the bomber. And I realize that his death count was artificially low. If Mr. Kaczynski is the Unabomber, he probably intended for dozens more men and women to die, and he deserves a heavy penalty for his crimes.