Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street crimes like murder, arson and robbery-even when they have political overtones-have clear equivalents in all languages and systems of jurisprudence. They provide few extradition difficulties. A London magistrate had no trouble in deciding to order the extradition of James Earl Ray to stand trial for the assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr., even though Ray raised a political claim...
...plant tear out the sides of the University of Wisconsin's Army Mathematics Research Center. Four persons were wounded and a physicist was killed. Caught in Canada early last year and finally extradited, Armstrong, 27, pleaded guilty six weeks ago in Madison, Wis., to second-degree murder and arson-but not before an unusual bit of plea bargaining. Armstrong wanted, as Attorney William Kunstler put it, "a chance to bring to his compatriots what...
CRIME. Violence and vandalism have become a bleak, persistent expectation in urban school systems. In Los Angeles, where 66,000 broken windows, arson, and other vandalism cost the school system $2.5 million last year, five German shepherds have been added to the nighttime security patrol. New York City will spend some $5,000,000 this year for alarm systems, closed circuit television and other devices to improve security in its schools...
Then, trying to explain the origins of recent political skulduggery, Nixon sought to link the Watergate case with the civil disobedience of the 1960s, which, he said, "brought a rising spiral of violence and fear, of riots and arson and bombings, all in the name of peace and justice . . . The notion that the end justifies the means proved contagious...
...headquarters in Heidelberg. The Pentagon justified the program on grounds of security, noting that U.S. installations in West Germany were the target of two bomb attacks in May 1972, which killed four soldiers. There have been repeated thefts of machine guns, ammunition and explosives from depots, several cases of arson and numerous attempts to sabotage missile installations. The Army is concerned lest some of its own troops have been involved. There has been continuing militancy among U.S. troops in Germany, particularly among blacks...