Word: arsons
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...when it does, cities can | spiral into an anarchy that defies all attempts at reversal. From Belfast, where religious hatred spawns terror, to Los Angeles, where the acquittal of four white policemen accused of beating a black motorist triggered last April's rampage of looting and arson, city dwellers have paid a horrible price when ethnic and political tensions boiled to the surface. When fighting began in Beirut in 1974, merchants spoke confidently of a return to normality within months. Few Lebanese expected that strife would still rule their lives 18 years later...
...celebration was held at Revolution Books, a place with a curious history. The JFK Street store has had a dubious arson and a bomb scare in the last few years, and it recently did a very rare thing for businesses--publicly displaying posters which, rather than encouraging purchases of their merchandise, actually asked for donations...
...arson in Molln elicited more calls for stiffer laws and sharper penalties, and at week's end, Germany officially banned the far-right Nationalistic Front. German federal prosecutor Alexander von Stahl took charge of the case, marking the first instance in which he has assumed responsibility for an investigation of far-right violence. The use of the Hitler salute on the phone, said Von Stahl in explaining his involvement, "indicates that the unidentified criminals wanted to use their crime to help restore a Nazi dictatorship in Germany...
Newspapers have traditionally covered everything from arson to zinnias. But a newspaper appearing in Cambridge bookstores this month has a surprising new focus--feelings...
...chain reaction" may have been set off, Burton says, once the town started getting publicity for its rash of arson cases. "Some of the street gangs are talking, and other street gangs say, 'we can do a better one,''' Burton says...