The Nation - News from Feb. 5, 1987
A federal magistrate approved the release of Silas Trim Bissell on $95,000 property bond pending his trial for attempting to blow up an ROTC building on the University of Washington campus in 1970. But the former radical was forced to stay behind bars another day on state charges. U.S. Magistrate John Weinberg made his decision after four of Bissell’s friends, who knew him under an alias in Eugene, Ore., collectively put up $250,000 worth of property as security for the bail and testified they believed he would not become a fugitive again.
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