Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...five hundred students staged a walk-out from a Dorchester high school February 4, Chairman of the School Committee Paul Tierney (Louise Day Hicks' successor), citing a "national conspiracy to disrupt and destroy the public school system," sent uniformed and plainclothes policemen into four Boston high schools to prevent arson and keep non-students out of the buildings. He said the conspiracy was made up of "extremists, the Progressive Labor Party, communist sympathizers, and SDS." Three weeks later one fourth of the students in thirteen Boston high schools went on strike asking for an end to harassment of black students...
Medford police captain Robert Glynn, who is heading the investigation, said last night that police had not yet determined the authenticity of a note from a group calling itself, "the Arson squad" which claimed responsibility for the bombing...
...Arson Squad...
...group calling itself "The Arson Squad" claimed responsibility for the bombing in a note tacked Sunday to the door of the Tufts student radio station. The note said that the group took the action to "express solidarity with the people of Laos who are fighting American imperialism led by agents trained in a large part at Fletcher...
...could have left it to the state to charge them with arson, which has a two-to-five year sentence, or with destruction of federal property which, under Missouri law, has a maximum sentence of one year...