Word: arsons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Yale University alumnus was charged with third-degree arson and released on $50,000 bail Monday after allegedly setting fire last weekend to a wooden shanty built by Yale undergraduates to protest Yale's investment in companies doing business in South Africa...
...admitted torching. He claimed that his wife had choked to death accidentally during an episode of sexual bondage. Though he faced the death penalty for murder, he drew only a seven-year prison term on the lesser charge of manslaughter. Frustrated prosecutors have now moved to try him for arson...
Police are not the only ones striking against the dealers. Last month two overzealous Northeast residents were charged with arson after burning down a crack house in their area. Both men confessed, saying that several neighbors had chipped in to buy the gasoline used to start the blaze...
...escalator mechanism, which might have produced a spark; or to the prewar wooden stairs, which might have come in contact with a cigarette or other flame. Officials found faults with both explanations. And although they received some telephone calls claiming sabotage, authorities were inclined to rule out both arson and terrorist attack. At week's end the only thing police could say with certainty was that the fire started on the escalator itself...
...concerned that Germany's future leader may do "too much womanizing." Another entry suggests that the burning of the Reichstag in 1933 surprised Hitler's circle. Though Goebbels' account may be disingenuous, the passage is likely to fuel the continuing debate as to whether or not the arson ) was a Nazi ruse. Elsewhere, Goebbels dismisses Churchill as a "degenerate genius, therefore not too dangerous," and six days before Germany's invasion of the Soviet Union, he predicts that Bolshevism will fall "like a house of cards...