Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...selected that within weeks four of them were forced to resign. One was pushed out for reputed ties with the Mafia and another for alleged conflicts of interest and mismanagement of union funds. A third was found to have been an associate of a lawyer convicted of fraud and arson. The fourth had claimed to hold degrees from two prestigious European universities but turned out to be a high school dropout...
...reported this week that Clifford acted as a straw in a real estate purchase for a rust that included George S. Davis, who was convicted last year of insurance fraud and conspiracy to commit arson...
...Arson and faulty chimney ventilation are the two most likely causes of Tuesday's fire in Adams House A-entry, John W. Ambrogne, lieutenant detective of the Massachusetts State Police, said yesterday...
...year empire as "the GM of pornography." Thevis controlled one of the nation's largest networks of adult bookstores, X-rated movie theaters, and peep-show machines. Seven months before, Thevis had escaped from a minimum-security jail in New Albany, Ind., while serving 8½ years for arson and interstate transportation of obscene material. He was held without bail; police also arrested a companion, Anna Jeanette Evans, 40, who was waiting for him outside the bank, and charged her with aiding a known fugitive. In Thevis' car, police found seven guns, $1 million in diamond and emerald...
Many workers seized on the unrest to press for specific noneconomic reforms as well. Employees at major banks, which have been a frequent target of fire bombs and arson by antigovernment demonstrators, walked out, demanding that they be given protective security. The press, which was partly unshackled last month, successfully won an end to all censorship. Employees of the government-financed National Iranian Radio and Television network, who struck for the second time last week, demanded-and got-Premier Jaafar Sharif-Emami's assurance that there would be no more government interference. Workers at one Tehran daily even struck...