RADICALS: Bombing the Banks

Busy on a story, Tim Findley did not check his mailbox at the San Francisco Chronicle until 3:30 in the afternoon. Even then, he did not bother to open a letter addressed to him from Chicago until 5. Printed neatly by hand, it warned that bombs had been planted in safe-deposit boxes in nine banks in New York, Chicago and San Francisco by a radical political group calling itself "Movement in Amerika."* The letter went on to list the names of the banks as well as the numbers of the boxes; enclosed was a key to one of the boxes.

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