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...Phoenix Center, founded by Mahatma Gandhi 80 years ago and now a monument to nonviolence. (Gandhi lived in South Africa from 1893 to 1915.) The episode began when hundreds of armed Indians assaulted 100 black refugees living in the center. Their motive: revenge for the previous looting and arson attacks by blacks on Indian townships...
...Only last month West German Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann called the R.A.F. "the most dangerous organization in West Germany." He described its potential for terror as "un-diminished and acute." West German authorities say that since last December the group and allied gangs have carried out 156 bombing and arson attacks...
...their honeymoon. But a passport check revealed that the couple's Swiss papers were false. VSD, which has a reputation for political muckraking, reported that Sophie-Claire was actually a captain in the French secret service. The Turenges have been charged in New Zealand with murder, arson and conspiracy...
...protest ship Rainbow Warrior was sinking in Auckland Harbor after a midnight bombing on July 10, witnesses spotted a figure in a frogman's outfit wading ashore nearby and climbing into a camper. Last week a French-speaking couple traveling around New Zealand in a van were arrested on arson and murder charges in connection with the sabotage, which killed Crew Member Fernando Pereira. Although the couple, identified as Alain Turenge, 33, and Sophie Turenge, 36, claimed to be Swiss tourists, a government spokesman in Berne said that the Turenges "do not exist" in Swiss records. Police have issued warrants...
CHARGED. AARON SPEED, 21, security guard for Hunters Brooke, a tony housing development under construction in southern Maryland; with setting fires on Dec. 6 that destroyed 10 houses and damaged 16 others in the worst arson case in the state's history; in Charles County. Court documents suggest that Speed had a grudge against his former employer. Three of his acquaintances were also charged in connection with the crime...