KACZYNSKI TO ANSWER CHARGES IN SACRAMENTO.

Byline: Nancy Vogel and Cynthia Hubert Scripps-McClatchy Western Service

A Montana judge Friday ordered Theodore Kaczynski to be moved to Sacramento to face charges that he is the infamous Unabomber, and authorities said he would arrive at Mather Field on Monday evening.

Kaczynski, 54, looked more like the professor he once was than the dirty loner arrested in April when he appeared in a Helena courtroom Friday morning to hear that he had been charged with four explosions, two of them fatal.

The bombs killed Sacramentans Hugh Scrutton in 1985 and Gilbert Murray last year, and injured academics Charles Epstein of the University of California, San Francisco, and David Gelernter of Yale University in 1993.

Following the brief ``removal hearing,'' federal marshals whisked Kaczynski back to the nearby Lewis and Clark County Jail. Later in the day, government officials announced that he would be transported Monday to Mather Field in Rancho Cordova by government jet.

Kaczynski will be taken by armored vehicle from Mather to the Sacramento County Jail, said Mike Nelson, chief deputy U.S. Marshal for the Eastern District of California. He is expected to make his first court appearance in Sacramento on Tuesday.

Kaczynski appeared attentive and upbeat throughout the 15-minute hearing in Montana, smiling and chatting with his attorneys and standing erectly at the podium before U.S. District Court Judge Charles Lovell.

``I take it you are well?'' the judge asked Kaczynski.

``Yes,'' said Kaczynski, nodding deeply.

``You're being treated well?'' asked Lovell.

``Yes, very well,'' said Kaczynski, nodding again. He wore a pale green dress shirt, khaki pants and high-top black tennis shoes, but no tie or belt. His gray-tinged hair was neatly trimmed and parted.

Kaczynski stood still, his arms crossed at the wrist, as Lovell read the 10-count indictment filed against him earlier this week by the federal court in Sacramento.

A math professor in the late 1960s at the University of California at Berkeley, Kaczynski dropped out of academia, built himself a small shack near Lincoln, Mont., and lived the life of a hermit. He is now suspected of being the person who killed three people and injured 23 others over 18 years of periodically mailing and dropping off package bombs.

Kaczynski's two attorneys, members of the nonprofit Federal Defenders of Montana, on Friday waived his right to an ``identity hearing'' at which the government would have to prove that the suspect before them is the same Theodore Kaczynski named in the indictment.

While he acknowledged that his client is the same person, defending attorney Michael Donahoe took issue with the way the government described him as ``aka FC'' in the indictment.

``FC'' are the initials the Unabomber used to mark his bombs and to identify himself in a letter to The New York Times.

``We are prepared to admit today that the defendant is Theodore Kaczynski but not `also known as FC,' '' said Donahoe.

``I take it you agree with your counsel?'' Lovell asked Kaczynski.

``Yes, I do,'' he replied.

But Lovell said agreement on Kaczynski's identity is all that mattered in this hearing.

Despite Donahoe's protests, the judge also granted assistant U.S. Attorney Bernard Hubley's motion to dismiss, ``without prejudice,'' the single charge of possessing bomb components that has kept Kaczynski in custody since his April 3 arrest.

That charge may be reinstated later, said Sherry Scheel Matteucci, the U.S. Attorney for Montana. She and New Jersey federal prosecutor Robert J. Cleary, who has been named to head the team that prosecutes Kaczynski, attended the hearing.

Donahoe had argued that the government should not be allowed to drop that charge without prejudice because it relates to a petition Donahoe has filed with the U.S. Supreme Court. That pending petition argues that news leaks have destroyed Kaczynski's ability to get a fair trial. The government has asked for more time to respond to it, Donahoe said.

But Lovell ruled in the government's favor.

Donahoe said he had been invited to join Kaczynski's defense team in Sacramento, which will be led by the federal defender in Sacramento, Quin Denvir. But Donahoe said he ``respectfully declined.''

``I've got other duties, other cases,'' he said.

Another member of the defense team, Tony Gallagher, said he will continue to work on the case from Montana.

In court, Kaczynski never turned around to see the roughly 80 reporters and court watchers behind him. They included Maddie Fox, 25, of Austin, Texas, who happened to be in Helena for a family reunion Friday.

Seeing Kaczynski, said Fox, is ``the best souvenir from Helena.''

While in Sacramento, Kaczynski will wear a bulletproof vest and leg irons when being transported from place to place, Nelson said. Observers at his first court appearance will be subjected to scanning by X-ray equipment outside the courtroom as well as upon entering the courthouse, he said.

``Mr. Kaczynski is very notorious,'' Nelson explained. ``We have to take precautions to make sure that nothing happens to Mr. Kaczynski.'' No threats have been made on the suspect's life, Nelson said, ``but we want to be very cautious.''