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Yesterday morning, a small fire flared briefly in the Yale Law School Library. The blaze was extinguished after doing $2000 damage. Preliminary reports indicate a strong possibility of arson. a fact which has served to increase the tension here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Panthers Say Rally Has Peaceful Intent But New Haven, Yale Anticipate Trouble | 4/28/1970 | See Source »

Murder and Molestation. Last week West Bengal's Chief Minister, Ajoy Mukherji, leader of the Bangla Congress Party, made an extraordinary broadcast detailing the sad condition of his state and its 48 million people. "A disastrous situation has developed," he said. "Violence is rampant, with riots, looting, arson, destruction of life and property, murder, and molestation of women." The next day Mukherji resigned, and the 14-party United Front that had been ruling West Bengal collapsed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: India: Where Death Looked Down | 3/30/1970 | See Source »

...Ralph Featherstone, 30, and William ("Che") Payne, 26. Featherstone, a former speech therapist, was well known as a civil rights field organizer and, more recently, as manager of the Afro-American bookstore, the Drum & Spear, in Washington. Both were friends of H. Rap Brown, whose trial on charges of arson and incitement to riot was scheduled to begin last week in Bel Air. Reconstruction of the car's speedometer indicates it was traveling about 55 miles an hour when it blew...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bombing: A Way of Protest and Death | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

...series of bombs exploded in government and corporate offices in the city; three left-wing white radicals were arrested and one is still sought. The San Francisco Bay Area had an estimated 62 bombings in the past year, Seattle 33. The FBI says that there were 61 bombing and arson cases on U.S. college campuses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Bombing: A Way of Protest and Death | 3/23/1970 | See Source »

Another article will explain how YAF was reportedly driven out of its office in downtown Boston on TDA in connection with suspected arson. The landlord asked the organization to leave his building after smoledring oily rags were discovered in the office, Cooper said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Massachusetts Y A F To Publish Periodical | 3/2/1970 | See Source »

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