To End Killing, Unabomber’s Text Printed

At the request of Attorney General Janet Reno and the FBI, and with the concurrence of The New York Times, The Washington Post is today publishing the unaltered 35,000-word manifesto of the serial killer known as the Unabomber in the hope of ending his 17-year campaign of murder through the mails.

The bomber offered last June to stop the killing, though not necessarily the property damage, if the text of the manifesto, calling for a revolution against the industrial-technological underpinnings of society, was published by one of the two newspapers within three months, and if three annual follow-up messages were also printed.

Facing the deadline Sunday, Donald E. Graham, the publisher of The Post, and Arthur Sulzberger Jr., the publisher of The Times, said the manifesto’s text was being printed by The Post because of its mechanical ability to print the voluminous text as a separate section of its daily paper.

The publishers said the costs and responsibilities of publication were being shared by both newspapers.