Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...person," she says, "I don't have no sympathy for that." Some states have already been pressed by high volume toward a strategy of reserving prisons for the most violent. More than 70% of the inmates in Illinois and New York are doing time for homicide, kidnaping, rape, arson, robbery, assault or weapons possession. Nationally, however, just over half of all prisoners are locked up for such crimes, and in Georgia, for instance, the overwhelming majority of prisoners are serving time for non-violent crimes. The rest are not angels with dirty faces but crooks, to be sure?thieves, mostly?...
...while some high-profile parts of the city are burgeoning, a lot of the rest is coming apart at the seams. A record-setting rampage of arson has beset Boston this summer, especially in its poor neighborhoods. The fires could not have come at a worse time: 469 of the city's 2,039 fire fighters (and 1,941 other municipal workers) have been laid off during a two-year fiscal crisis. Racism is singularly virulent and regularly violent. After eight years of court-ordered busing, the proportion of whites enrolled in the city's public schools...
...ballooning housing costs do not drive out longtime residents, the arson epidemic may. Almost two buildings are being torched a night, on average, and one in five Boston fires is set deliberately, twice the 1979 rate. Since June 11, when 101 fires were reported in twelve hours, arsonists have caused $5 million in damage. Jim Coakley is one of 16 firemen on a special roving arson squad that includes police and federal agents. "It could be anything," he says. "Profit, vandalism, imitation... Some of it is because kids decide to set a fire and get some excitement...
...chanced on a kidnaper and his victim. Everglades National Park in Florida has become a major thoroughfare for illegal drugs from Colombia and elsewhere. Arizona has robberies, assaults, rapes and sex parties in its Salt River area, and the Wasatch Front in Utah is the scene of drug feuds, arson and marauding motorcycle gangs. On a single summer day in Yellowstone National Park, when as many as 30,000 people visit natural wonders like Old Faithful, Park Service officers must stay on the alert for violations that range from speeding to burglarizing parked campers. Says Chief Ranger Thomas Hobbs...
...first game. Billy I arson pitched a six hitter but was on the verge of losing when Harvard entered the bottom of the seventh down...