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...offenders are overwhelmingly male, but girls too are capable of vicious crimes. In Escondido, Calif., a 16-year-old girl and three teenage boys went on an arson spree last March. The group set four fires at three schools, causing damage that will cost more than $1 million to repair. A 16-year-old girl from Cape Cod, Mass., who had been drinking stabbed her male cousin, severely injuring...
...white American who avoids Harlem missing something? Yes: for starters, a poignant and profound social textbook lying open for study in the heart of a great city. One gazes at block after block of abandoned brownstones -- their fronts corked by arson, their doorways cemented shut, their empty windows gaping like a skeleton's eye sockets -- and realizes that agonizing irony is Harlem's chief industry. Perhaps, then, the European tourists are seeing things. Yes, they are: spectacular things. Any tour of Harlem compresses into a few square miles the melodramatic contradictions of urban life. Horror dwells in the basement...
...host to the Super Bowl, a Colombian-born policeman $ shot and killed a black motorcyclist speeding through the streets of Overtown, a ghetto just northwest of downtown. A passenger riding on the rear of the motorcycle was fatally injured in the resulting crash. The incident triggered two nights of arson, looting and random shootings that spread from Overtown to the nearby black ghetto Liberty City...
...Through carefully crafted plans of plunder, arson, deportation and personal assault, the Azerbaijani government officials are raping the republic; this, if not with the tacit approval, at least with the tranquil acceptance, of Soviet leadership and Soviet troops," the order read...
...group charges that affluent English home buyers seeking vacation retreats are snapping up Welsh country cottages and pricing out the locals. In retaliation, the Sons have been setting fire to purchases made in Wales by outlanders: more than 140 arson attacks since 1979 have resulted in damages totaling almost $1 million. Official nationalist groups in Wales dissociate themselves from the property extremists...