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- NATION, Page 29American NotesPOSTAL SERVICEDon't Open That Package!
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- Letter carriers usually fret about dogs; now they're worried
- about copycats. Postal workers are afraid that mail bombings
- in the South, which left a federal judge and a civil rights
- lawyer dead, were models for two unrelated episodes last week.
- In Brooklyn, a booby-trapped .22-cal. sawed-off rifle, which
- failed to go off, was mailed in a briefcase to a federal
- prosecutor. In Houston a Pentecostal minister's daughter
- suffered burns when she opened an exploding parcel addressed to
- her father.
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- Tom McClure of the U.S. Postal Inspection Service faults
- publicity for the spate of bombings. The service now has an
- Atlanta hot line to take calls about suspect packages. "We are
- trying to get members not to panic," says Moe Biller, president
- of the American Postal Workers Union.
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