Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like crossing the street or selling goods-have become fraught with fear," says Associate Editor Edwin Warner, who wrote this week's cover story on the growing American scourge of juvenile crime. The article profiles a new breed of delinquent-youngsters who casually commit murder, rape, assault and arson. It discusses the reasons for their delinquency, and describes the floundering juvenile justice system that must deal with them...
...also promised to seek a political amnesty, "since we don't accept the principle of crimes of opinion." Ecevit carefully exempted crimes of violence, however. He is aware that many of the 250 leftist criminals in Turkish prisons are there not for what they thought, but for rioting, arson and murder...
Unlawful Burning. The Wilmington affair erupted in early February 1971, when tensions resulting from school desegregation led to widespread demonstrations, arson, shootings and other violence. A black civil rights organizer, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, then 23, was sent to the city by the United Church of Christ's Commission on Racial Justice; he quickly became a leader of the black demonstrators. Just five days after his arrival, someone bombed Mike's Grocery, 300 yds. from Chavis' headquarters at the manse of Gregory Congregational Church. In that weekend of violence, one middle-aged white...
...Murder, arson, rape! Feel safe. Be prepared to save your family...
Lancelot's pursuit of what he calls "the Unholy Grail" leads him to commit several murders and arson. He, in turn, is committed to a New Orleans insane asylum, where he has one room with a view of Lafayette Cemetery. There he tells his story to a friend who has become a Catholic priest. But Lancelot's confession is anything but repentant. It is both a funny and a scarifying jeremiad on the modern...