Word: arsons
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WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton outlined the Administration's plan to prevent more church burnings in a White House meeting with governors, police, and prosecutors from seven Southern states. The Administration pledged to raise $10 million for church rebuilding efforts and more than $20 million to intensify federal law enforcement arson investigations. The White House also reassured the attendees that federal investigators would cooperate fully with any state and local law enforcement efforts to combat the fires. The President got a boost from the Senate, which introduced a bill Wednesday, similar to one passed unanimously Tuesday night in the House, that...
WASHINGTON, D.C.: President Clinton outlined the Administration's plan to prevent more church burnings in a White House meeting with governors, police, and prosecutors from seven Southern states. The Administration pledged to raise $10 million for church rebuilding efforts and more than $20 million to intensify federal law enforcement arson investigations. The White House also reassured the attendees that federal investigators would cooperate fully with any state and local law enforcement efforts to combat the fires. The President got a boost from the Senate, which introduced a bill Wednesday, similar to one passed unanimously Tuesday night in the House, that...
...Rising Sun Missionary Baptist church in Greensboro, Alabama, and a former sanctuary at Matthews-Murkland Presbyterian Church in Charlotte, North Carolina, were torched--30 black churches in an eight-state arc from Louisiana to Virginia had been burned over the past 18 months. Only a handful of these arson cases have been solved. Such senseless destruction strikes at the soul of congregations. But their anguish deepens when they, the victims, also become suspects...
...definetely dominated by one group, not only in terms of demographics but also politically," reports TIME's Massimo Calabresi from the city. After almost four years of war, the last of five Serb-held areas came under the control of the Muslim-Croat Federation Tuesday. Following days of looting, arson and reported rape by angry Serbs, 100 Federation police moved into the Serb suburb of Grbavica. Hours before, departing Serbs had tossed grenades and set buildings ablaze before fleeing. The mixed Federation police force -- 75 Muslims, 20 Serbs and five Croats -- now patrol the district. "Recently, between...
...homes in the Sarajevo suburb of Grbavica anticipating the transfer of control to the Muslim-Croat Federation on Tuesday. Many Bosnian Serbs are torching their homes as they move out, and groups of Serb thugs, roaming the area looting and burning houses, harass Serb residents who refuse to leave. Arson and looting took place in other Sarajevo suburbs, but not with the violence and intensity of the Grbavica transfer. The reunification of Sarajevo under Muslim Croat rule, as dictated by the Dayton peace agreement, came as a real blow to Bosnian Serbs. Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic says the Serbs...