Anti-Vietnam War Bomber, 4 Others Hunted After Raid on Drug Factory
A man who participated in a fatal anti-war bombing at the University of Wisconsin in 1970 has been charged with helping operate a narcotics factory.
Dwight A. Armstrong, 35, and four other people were being sought Friday after a raid at a Bloomington apartment described by investigators as a methamphetamine laboratory.
In the earlier case in Madison, Wis., Armstrong and three associates were accused of manufacturing a bomb from nitrogen fertilizer and placing it outside a university building that housed the Army Math Research Center as a protest against the Vietnam War. The explosion killed a researcher, Robert Fassnacht.
Armstrong was captured seven years later in Toronto and was convicted in the bombing. He was paroled in 1980. Two of his associates also served prison terms; the fourth suspect was never captured.
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