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...grand jury prefers the latter explanation. Barton was indicted Wednesday on arson charges; Colorado authorities say she deliberately started a wildfire southwest of Denver on June 8th. The blaze, the largest in Colorado history, has ravaged 135,000 acres of parched land, destroying 25 houses and driving nearly 8,000 people from their homes...
...five band members wear identical black dress shirts and trousers, set off by white shoes and fluorescent white ties folded to look like ascots. Offstage, the Hives prefer black T shirts that blare their individual rock-'n'-roll pseudonyms--Chris Dangerous, Dr. Matt Destruction, Howlin' Pelle Almqvist, Nicholaus Arson and Vigilante Carlstroem--in big block letters. They are not courting anonymity. Nevertheless, shortly before their concert last week at Chicago's old Metro theater, the Hives walked past their fans in the theater lobby, sporting their identity-shouting T shirts, without so much as a single "Isn't that Howlin...
FRANCE Synagogue Arson A series of attacks on Jewish places of worship, cemeteries and shops in France and Belgium was blamed on the worsening Middle East crisis. After a firebomb attack on a Marseilles synagogue, similar assaults were made in Lyons and Montpellier. Near Strasbourg, a bomb was found in a cemetery where arsonists had earlier damaged a pavilion. In the Belgian cities of Brussels and Antwerp, synagogues were also attacked. Prime Minister Lionel Jospin warned that the "passions that flare up in the Middle East must not flare up" in France, home to 4 million Muslims and around...
...people already dead in the worst intercommunal strife in a decade, Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee belatedly visited the western state of Gujarat. The violence began in Godhra a month ago when a Muslim mob set fire to a train, killing 60 Hindu activists, provoking revenge attacks of murder, arson and looting. On the eve of the visit five Muslims died when their homes near Ahmedabad were torched. Vajpayee told victims that the failure of the local administration to prevent the violence would be investigated...
...CONVICTED. Robert Long, 38, itinerant Australian fruit picker, on charges of arson and murder for starting the June 2000 fire that killed 15 at a Queensland backpackers' hostel; in Brisbane. Long is likely to face life in prison for setting the blaze in the town of Childers that claimed the lives of four Australians, six Britons, two Dutch, one Irish, one Japanese and a South Korean. DIED. Raffaele Ciriello, 42, veteran Italian war photographer, after being shot six times in the abdomen and chest, apparently by Israeli troops while in the West Bank, becoming the first foreign journalist killed there...