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...year in jail and a $500 fine. Though most of those convicted had not heard about the curfew, ninety were processed and sentenced in a bizarre mass trial held the night of the arrests. When Gilligan called the trials a joke, press and public reacted hysterically. "Arson and rape" became the decisive ingredients in his defeat next November...
...dawn fire charred part of the Marine Classroom on the first floor of Shannon Hall--the ROTC building--yesterday morning. Officials suspect arson...
Thomas J. Moriarty, head of the Naval ROTC unit at Harvard, went further. "I definitely think it was arson," he said. "There was very little damage," he added, and the only missing items were a few papers from the top of one desk. "They may have been used to start the fire," he said...
...think it was arson because one chair was piled on top of another, paper placed under them, and the fire started--that's not accidental," Moriarty said. He added, "This building is very, very easy to get into--all you need is a jackknife...
...fact, disorders have leaped like firebrands from campus to campus?Berkeley, Brandeis, Chicago, Columbia and Howard, to name a few. At Duke and Wisconsin, the turmoil required the National Guard. Black militants and striking teachers closed San Francisco State College for five months, a shutdown punctuated by police raids, arson attempts and bomb explosions...