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...list: pledges not to accept bribes, obtain false ration cards, travel on trains without tickets, forge signatures, commit abortion or arson. The disciples also promised not to adulterate milk with water, or flour with powdered stone, and "not to tell a lie to marry off one's daughters . . . for example, not to tell about a blind girl that she has eyesight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA: Atomic Vows | 5/15/1950 | See Source »

...State Department. Objects of the charge were the supporters of the Conservative Party now in power in the South American republic of Colombia. During the past year or so, said Pattison, the Roman Catholic Conservatives had been systematically trying to drive the Protestants out by beatings, bombings, arson and intimidation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Fire in Colombia | 4/24/1950 | See Source »

...cause of the fire did not take long. Among the rescued inmates was Nicholas A. Verna Jr., an antiaircraftman at Salerno beachhead, who had got combat decorations and a head wound in World War II and returned to civilian life with a case of pyromania. With nine cases of arson on his record, Verna had been confined to Belle-Vista by the Veterans Administration. Confronted by investigators, Verna confessed that he had wandered into the basement and set fire to a towel near a laundry chute. "I got a sick feeling and had to do something," he explained...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: DISASTER: A Chance to Be a Hero | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

Dealer's Choice. In Albany, N.Y., Joseph Padersky, charged with arson, admitted he had burned the building because he had always had bad luck at poker there...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Apr. 10, 1950 | 4/10/1950 | See Source »

...Shadow of Tragedy." "Barbarian neighbor!" barked the Indian press, charging Pakistan with a plot of annihilation against Hindus. Angry Pakistan headlines bayed: "Over 10,000 [Moslems] killed-harrowing tales of murder, arson and loot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDIA & PAKISTAN: Let It Be War . . ' | 3/6/1950 | See Source »

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