NATION : Anti-War Figure Ends Prison Term

CLEVELAND — Silas Trim Bissell, great-grandson of the founder of the carpet sweeper company that bears the family name, completed a 17-month federal prison term today stemming from his anti-war activities as a Weatherman more than a decade ago.

Bissell, 46, who has been in a Cleveland halfway house since October, lived as a fugitive for 17 years after skipping bail on a charge of trying to bomb an Air Force ROTC building on the University of Washington campus in Seattle. He was allowed to plead guilty to a lesser charge and in August, 1987, began serving a three-year prison sentence at Lompoc Federal Prison Camp in California. He has said he plans to settle in Eugene, Ore.