The Nation - News from Aug. 22, 1986
A judge who reportedly was the intended target of a pipe bomb returned to work under guard in Fargo, N.D., and authorities said two politically sensitive trials he had presided over may have motivated someone to seek revenge. A bomb was defused at the Federal Building on Wednesday, and a similar bomb exploded Monday at the Fargo Post Office, injuring four workers. U.S. District Judge Paul Benson, 68, in 1977 presided over the trial of Indian activist Leonard Peltier, who was convicted of slaying two FBI agents. The second trial involved the 1983 shooting deaths of two U.S. marshals by tax protesters.
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