Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Laura J. Brown '80, former editor of the East Boston Committee News, is a member of the Boston Arson Commission...
...federal presence has not stemmed the antiabortion violence. There were three bomb or arson attacks on abortion facilities in 1982, two in 1983, but 24 last year. Still, the BATF agents, working with local police, have an impressive record. Nearly half of all the crimes are considered "solved," meaning that there have been either arrests or convictions. In sentencing the bombers or arsonists, judges have ignored pleas that the acts were motivated by religion or politics and harmed only property. (No one has been injured in any of the attacks.) The sentences have been stiff...
Cambridge Arson Squad Inspector Thomas C. Levins said there are no suspects yet, but refused to comment further...
According to Merkin, the police believed the fire was an arson because everyone in the suite was leaving by the time police and firemen arrived. The students either left for the football game at the University of Pennsylvania or went to classes, Merkin said...
Merkin said he thought the fire was accidental, and that after questioning the members of the suite, the police were satisfied that it was not a case of arson...