DATE: Wednesday, November 12, 1997          TAG: 9711120435

SECTION: FRONT                   PAGE: A4   EDITION: FINAL 

SOURCE: BY TRACY SEIPEL, KNIGHT-RIDDER NEWS SERVICE 

DATELINE: BERKELEY, CALIF.                  LENGTH:   41 lines

FOCUS: THE UNABOMBER TRIAL

A cold-blooded, calculating killer? Or a once-brilliant academic engulfed by paranoid schizophrenia? Whichever is true, there is little doubt that the man who goes on trial today in the Unabomber case is a deeply troubled soul. ILLUSTRATION: Graphic with photos

THE UNABOMBER'S TRAIL

May 25, 1978: A package found at a University of Illinois

parking lot in Chicago is brought to the return addressee at

Northwestern University, where it explodes, injuring one.

Dec. 11, 1985: The first fatality. Sacramento, Calif., computer

rental store owner Hugh Scrutton is killed when he picks up a bomb

outside his business.

Feb. 20, 1987: The Unabomber is spotted. A witness in a Salt Lake

City computer store sees a man in a hooded sweatshirt and aviator

sunglasses placing a bomb. Unabomber attacks cease for six years.

June 22, 1993: University of California-San Francisco geneticist

Dr. Charles Epstein injured by a bomb sent to his home. The package

is postmarked Sacramento.

June 1993: The Unabomber communicates for the first time in a

letter to The New York Times explaining his eco-anarchist views. A

federal task force is set up.

April 24, 1995: The final bombing. Timber industry lobbyist

Gilbert Murray is killed opening a package in his Sacramento office.

The package was postmarked Oakland, Calif.

Sept. 19, 1995: The Washington Post and New York Times jointly

publish the Unabomber's 35,000-word manifesto, ``Industrial Society

and Its Future,'' following the serial bomber's promise to stop his

attacks.

February 1996: David Kaczynski, after reading the manifesto and

comparing it to letters written by his brother, Ted, communicates

his suspicions to the FBI.

April 3, 1996: Ted Kaczynski is arrested at his mountain cabin in

Montana.

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