8-5-95. NYPaper: "Esoteric Wedge of Academia Is Roiled by Hunt for Bomber." Last October an agent from the Federal Bureau of Investigation showed up in New Orleans and subpoenaed the History of Science Society's membership records and questioned scholars for clues to the identity of the the Unabomber. That subpoena, and the disclosure that the F.B.I. believes that the bomber is immersed in the most radical interpretations of the history of science, has roiled the usually placid waters of the discipline. And across the country, professors have begun reconsidering old suspicions, acquaintances and tracts to help solve the crimes. ROL_aid "Obscure Global Bank Moves Into the Light." In a small Swiss city sits an international organization so obscure and secretive that for many years visitors got lost looking for a small plaque next to an otherwise undistinguished doorway. Control of the institution, the Bank for International Settlements, lies with some of the world's most powerful and least visible men: the heads of 32 central banks, officials able to shift billions of dollars and alter the course of economies at the stroke of a pen. Now, however, the bank is stepping out of the shadows a bit. Last September, the Federal Reserve, the United States' central bank, officially joined -- quietly and discreetly, of course. DON_ask Buda-Pest: JIL_ted