Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...street is the stage," says the American Yippie Jerry Rubin in Do It!, his handbook for the modern revolutionary. In cities throughout the non-Communist world, that stage is alive with alarming activities: politically motivated arson, bombing, kidnaping and murder. Closely related to these is the phenomenon of skyjacking, for just as the highly complex 20th century city is the most vulnerable point in man's terrestrial sphere, so is the thin-skinned, 600-m.p.h. jet the most vulnerable in the atmosphere. The terrorist activity is worldwide, and most of it is carried out by a new type...
...release from prison of 23 FLQ members (including Pierre-Paul Geoffroy) who had been convicted of armed robbery, arson, bombing, or murder...
...itself was founded in 1960. Its movement had been a confused struggle that few people in Quebec really understood; it had begun with arson and bank robberies, progressed to bombings with the explosion at a strike-bound shoe factory in 1966, and escalated to the political kidnappings of earlier this month. The FLQ was always a self-consciously underground group, rarely offering any explanation of what it did, never attempting to build an above-ground political base. Its acts were characterized in the Canadian media as those of mad and reckless terrorists...
...terrorists' next step would be selective assassination of political leaders. Adding to the urgency was the knowledge that over the past year more than 2,000 lbs. of dynamite-9,000 sticks -had been stolen throughout Quebec, and the F.L.Q. was chiefly known for its acts of robbery, arson and bombing...
Also indicted was Richard Felber, 21, a former Kent student. He was charged with first-degree rioting, attempted arson and obstructing firemen. Helber is about to serve a 20-to 40-year sentence, convicted on three charges of selling hallucinogens...