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- <text id=90TT0366>
- <title>
- Feb. 12, 1990: American Notes:Postal Service
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 12, 1990 Scaling Down Defense
- </history>
- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- NATION, Page 29
- American Notes
- POSTAL SERVICE
- Don't Open That Package!
- </hdr>
- <body>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
- <p> 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.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
- </text>
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