The Nation - News from Jan. 27, 1987
U.S. Magistrate John Weinberg in Seattle ordered Silas Trim Bissell, a founder of the radical Weatherman involved in Vietnam War protests in the 1960s, to stand trial March 31 on charges he planted a bomb at the Air Force Reserve Officer Training Corps building on the University of Washington campus on Jan. 18, 1970. Bissell, 44, was arrested last week at his home in Eugene, Ore., where he had been living under an assumed name.
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