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COMMENTS: Not Bombs, Not Terrorism
All three newscasts filed breaking stories about the parcel threats addressed to a couple of state government offices in Maryland yet, taken together, they shed almost no light on what happened. ABC's Pierre Thomas was the most alarmed of the three: "They were designed to detonate upon opening and they were powered by small batteries and contained explosive chemicals. Now, they appear to have been sent by someone very, very angry at the government" CBS' Bob Orr was calm, pooh-poohing such explosion talk: "The parcels were not bombs but incendiary devices." NBC's Pete Williams was positively blase: "There is no suggestion of terrorism here." Williams did not elaborate.
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