Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate cause of the rioting was the conviction last week of two young Maoist editors on charges of inciting murder, pillage and arson (sample quote: "Not one bourgeois will leave revolutionary Paris alive") in their newspaper The People's Cause, a shrill bimonthly with a circulation of 20,000. After the two young editors were arrested, French Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre took over as editor. Two days before his predecessors were to be tried, Sartre presided over a protest meeting in the Latin Quarter and urged a crowd of 3,000 to unite in protest. Thunderous cheers went...
...administrators took a particularly hard line on so-called "street people"-non-students who help stir things up. Morris urged the legislators to find a constitutional way "to cleanse ourselves of them." President David D. Henry of the University of Illinois cited the "guerrilla hit-and-run tactics-bombing, arson and vandalism-of dedicated destroyers." He deplored the "delay between arrest and trial" of such activists, who usually are "free on bail and tend to remain in the area and participate in continuing events...
...paradoxical to watch these sincere and deeply concerned prophets of peace engage in so many acts of arson, vandalism and violence? I sometimes worry about my own generation...
...many cases the massed forces of dissent-as at most of last week's rallies mourning the Kent State four-have demonstrated a commendable restraint in not letting verbal protest build into violence. The fact remains, however, that all too often these days dissent is a matter of arson and rock throwing. The reason may be that protesters have despaired of the efficacy of words before they have really mastered them. It is significant that this generation of dissenters has failed to produce a literature, or even a polemic that is likely to endure. On the contrary...
Last week a blaze believed to be set by arsonists swept through the student union building, causing $2,000,000 in damages despite the efforts of students who helped firemen carry out art objects and furnishings. Nor did the terrorists confine their activities to arson. Snipers shot at firemen who came to fight a fire in an off-campus building, drilled three holes in a fire engine...