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...training emphasis for Army Guardsmen has been on weapons of war-for the federal role-it is no surprise that they were ill-prepared to cope with the summer's disturbances in America's city streets. The Guard in Newark and Detroit was confronted with organized arson, mass looting and, most terrifying of all, snipers firing at Guardsmen from darkened windows. In both cities, the Guard lacked a clear-cut chain of command, suffered from the hesitation of political commanders, was committed to piecemeal units. The New Jersey Guard lacked radio equipment to keep in contact with...
...fires break out in establishments that are in deep financial trouble or hopelessly obsolescent. Their managers know that generous fire insurance policies sponsored by the state allow them to modernize their factories as well as rebuild them. "We do not like to make insinuations," said Vijesnik u Srijedu, "but arson pays off handsomely." And the risk is virtually nonexistent. Because state insurance companies rely on harried local police to conduct fire investigations, no company official has yet been found guilty of anything more serious than negligence. The maximum penalty for that is a $16 fine...
...Marx. Imprisoned in the flyspecked oil town of Camiri, Debray was charged with murder, arson, armed insurrection, conspiracy against the state and illegal entry into Bolivia. He was held for trial by a military tribunal rather than a civilian criminal court. His arrest brought immediate protests from the French Ambassador, screams from the French press, and a personal appeal from De Gaulle. The Human Rights Commissions of France, Italy and Belgium dispatched observers to plead his case. His father, who is a lawyer, his mother, who is a Paris city councilwoman, and his childhood nurse all flew to the Bolivian...
...future." Insurance companies will certainly try to cut their losses-especially for any future disturbances. "Those people in Detroit are going to pay a whale of a price," says James L. Bentley, president of the National Association of Insurance Commissioners. Jones does not hesitate to predict that looting and arson in the ghettos will result in higher insurance premiums and outright policy cancellations. To guard against the latter, both the Michigan and New Jersey state insurance commissioners asked for-and got-pledges that most insurance companies would refrain from canceling ghetto policies for 90 days...
...hermetic round-the-clock cur few, thus isolating rioters, minimizing danger to the innocent, and giving the police and National Guard as much elbow room as they needed. Disturbances started when a group of Negro teen-agers left a church dance and began breaking store windows. Looting, sniping and arson immediately followed...