Word: arsons
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...civil rights "it begins with the weak and the friendless, or the scorned and the degraded, or the nonconformist and the unorthodox." Of the major civil liberties cases that have reached the U.S. Supreme Court in the past decade, most of the defendants "have been accused of murder, rape, arson, narcotics offenses, bootlegging and membership in the Communist Party...
Prime motive of the bill is to prevent the spread of such incidents as the wave of arson and bombings that broke out last December. In the future, announced Justice Minister Johannes Vorster, death can be the punishment for cases of proven "sabotage." And what is sabotage? It can be a strike by workers in the fuel, food, power or sanitary fields; the painting of political slogans on walls; possession of a firearm or explosives without a license; simple trespass; a speech. Apart from sabotage, the law will give Vorster power to prohibit anyone from "performing any act" whatever...
...pilots returned to their base in Algeria and promptly deserted. In a single day in Algeria, 75 people were killed or wounded. In Algiers, European gunmen spread chaos, killing at least 20 anti-S.A.O. commandos of De Gaulle's government. The police received emergency calls reporting murders, arson or bombing every quarter of an hour until curfew. Dead, dying or wounded men lay every 500 yards along the Rue Michelet...
Brandsiftung, vermutlich? [Arson, presumably?] Evidently, fear and chaos lurk behind the bland prosperity...
...traced the culprits, the tap led to 22-year-old Steven Van Otten and 19-year-old Barry Van Otten, the sons of a policeman in suburban Daly City. They confessed and involved eleven other teen agers, including the son of the head of the fire department's arson squad...