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Unabomber _ Joint Statemment
By The Associated Press
Copyright 1995, The Associated Press
The joint statement appearing in today's editions of The Washington Post
and The New York Times.
For three months The Washington Post and The New York Times have jointly
faced the demand of a person known as the Unabomber that we publish a
manuscript of about 35,000 words. If we failed to do so, the author of this
document threatened to send a bomb to an unspecified destination "with intent
to kill."
From the beginning the two newspapers have consulted closely on the issue
of whether to publish under the threat of violence. We have also consulted law
enforcement officials. Both the Attorney General and the director of the
Federal Bureau of Investigation have now recommended that we print this
document for public safety reasons, and we have agreed to do so.
Therefore, copies of the Unabomber's unaltered manuscript are being
distributed in today's Washington Post. The decision to print was made jointly
by the two newspapers, and we will split the costs of publishing. It is being
printed in The Post because of The Post's mechanical ability to distribute a
separate section in all copies of its daily paper.
Donald E. Graham
Arthur Sulzberger Jr.
September 19, 1995