ROANOKE TIMES 
                      Copyright (c) 1996, Roanoke Times

DATE: Wednesday, January 3, 1996             TAG: 9601030079
SECTION: NATL/INTL                PAGE: A-4  EDITION: METRO 

IN THE NATION

ATF: Blast foul play; note found

OPELIKA, Ala. - An exploding package that injured an Episcopal priest was a homemade bomb made with murderous intent, federal agents said Tuesday.

CBS News reported Tuesday that a note was found vowing revenge against the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms and that the victim, the Rev. Mike Schnatterly, lived next door to a retired ATF agent.

A spokeswoman for the ATF in Washington, Susan McCarron, confirmed that investigators had found a note but she didn't know what it said.

Schnatterly, pastor at Emmanuel Episcopal Church, survived the blast Monday by ``sheer luck,'' said James Cavanaugh, special agent in charge of the ATF office in Birmingham.

Schnatterly was in his carport Monday morning when he found a box on the trunk of his car, police said. When he picked it up, it exploded.

Schnatterly was hospitalized in good condition Tuesday.

- Associated Press

Briefly

Ortho Pharmaceutical Corp. has won permission from the Food and Drug Administration to promote its acne drug Tretinoin, sold under the brand name Retin-A, as a wrinkle remover.

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