Word: arsons
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...Goodwill Arson. It took only a small spark to ignite Hough. Early one evening, the bartender in a sleazy, white-operated tavern called The 79ers refused to give a glass of ice water to a Negro, who then ran angrily into the street shouting the news to his street-corner cronies. A muttering crowd gathered outside the bar, stormed the place, and wrecked it. The rampage was on. Chanting "Black power! Black power!", hundreds of Negro hoodlums charged up and down the streets, smashing and looting white-owned shops at will...
...experiment: compensation for people who suffer physical injury at the hands of wrongdoers. Headed by Sir Ronald Long, former president of the English Law Society, a six-lawyer committee called the Criminal Injuries Compensation Board has invited any Briton to claim damages for anything from arson to assault to injuries incurred while helping the police or trying to make a citizen's arrest...
...Watts Happening." Anti-poverty officials have rushed through a $40 million crash allocation for Los Angeles County, half of it earmarked for Watts. A discount store blackened from Au gust's arson has been made over-and appropriately renamed "Watts Happening"-as a Government-financed coffeehouse for idle youth. A new $800,000 training center offers classes in grammar and Negro history for 200 students. But the overall program has been snarled by political rivalry and bureaucratic delays, and visible accomplishments so far are few. A new Head Start project for preschool youngsters got under way only last month...
...formation of shadow cabinets are exaggerated. The Minister of Law and Order has received extra-constitutional powers from Smith to hold anyone suspected of such treason in prison indefinitely without trial. And the Rhodesian government continues to demand the death penalty for two Africans accused of attempted arson although they have already received royal pardon. This is not yet a mood of acquiesence...
...avoid a similar fate, other looters began abandoning their booty. Police recovered more than 50,000 stolen articles: television sets, a score of sofas, hundreds of lamps, a truckload of beer. More than 3,000 of those arrested faced felony charges ranging from looting and armed burglary to arson and murder. To complicate things for the courts, some of the prisoners gave fake names like Richard Burton and Edward G. Robinson. According to a tongue-in-cheek theory making the rounds of white Los Angeles, the riots had not been halted by the National Guard; they simply petered out when...