Word: arsonists
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, a five-member Israeli investigative commission, including two Moslems, issued a 19-page report on the issue that launched the conference -the Al Aqsa fire. The report accused the mosque's Moslem guards of laxity for having allowed the alleged arsonist, a 28-year-old Australian, to slip into the shrine before visiting hours. Fire damage could have been greatly reduced if modern extinguishers had been available in the mosque, the report added, but Arab officials had rejected an earlier Israeli offer of fire-fighting equipment. Their reasoning, the report went on, was: "There is nothing to fear...
...disastrous returns from hometown Cincinnati. He had expected to come out about even there, but he ended up losing two to one. The morning daily had contributed by running a front-page editorial which claimed that a vote for Gilligan would be a vote for every arsonist and rapist in the state...
...youths on how to avoid the draft, been arrested with Negroes at a sit-in. Last July he invited Milwaukee's Father William Groppi and a contingent of his followers down to join a series of Black Power demonstrations in South Bend. Less than a month later, an arsonist hurled a Molotov cocktail at Schneiders' church, and half of it was destroyed by fire. The Insurance Company of North America duly covered the $40,000 worth of damage-but then canceled the congregation's policy on the ground that the church was a likely target for similar...
After five days, they arrested the arsonist: a 13-year-old Negro school drop out who was seen scurrying from the tenement where the flames started. He signed a two-page confession describing how he started the fire by igniting a stack of papers. When asked why he did it, he murmured: "I don't know...
...following instructions, which I thought were instructions on the night of the riot that were not carried out," he said at a City Hall press conference. "I said to him very emphatically and very definitely that an order be issued by him immediately to shoot to kill any arsonist or anyone with a Molotov cocktail in his hand, because they're potential murderers, and to shoot to maim or cripple anyone looting." As for young looters, Daley favored the use of Chemical Mace as "safer." Rapping his top cop, James B. Conlisk Jr., for failing to apply "deadly force...