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Several prominent senior-class members were excluded from graduation ceremonies at Paschal High in Fort Worth last week. Earlier that day, seven seniors and one junior from Paschal were indicted on a total of 33 felony and misdemeanor charges in a bizarre vigilante scheme that involved arson, bombings and threatening another student with...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Vigilantes: Ambassadors of Terror | 6/10/1985 | See Source »

...help people escape. "The fire simply erupted at the back of the stand and seemed to spread everywhere inside seconds," Yorath said. "We were all panic- stricken and had no idea what to do." The fire started under the grandstand floorboards, and authorities are investigating the possibility of arson. The estimated toll: 40 dead, 200 injured. Said a police spokesman: "As far as we know it is the worst fire ever in a British football stadium...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Britain Inferno At a Soccer Game | 5/20/1985 | See Source »

...touring and Blackie to seek greater song-writing profits. But stuck in considerable debt and creatively bankrupt--he has unwittingly sold the rights to his songs--Doc must adopt a tough counter-strategy against the unsavory tactics of Nashville music manager Rodeo Rocky (Richard Sarafian). After an implausibly easy arson job, he takes off to Austin to form his own record label and write songs under other people's names...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Down-Home Sleaze | 5/6/1985 | See Source »

...York City's Greenwich Village this winter, odd-shaped metal boxes and barbed wire were placed across hot-air exhaust grates to keep homeless people from sleeping in the neighborhood. A center helping the homeless in downtown San Diego burned in a fire classified as arson. And in Santa Cruz, Calif., where vagrants are called trolls, the police brass felt it necessary to warn their officers not to wear TROLL BUSTER T shirts while off duty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Behavior: Harassing the Homeless | 3/11/1985 | See Source »

...student doing a paper on juvenile delinquency, for example, can plug into a data bank and ask to see all the articles in which the words child and crime appear. He can then further narrow the search by calling up only those stories that contain the words murder or arson...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Computers: Terminals Among the Stacks | 2/25/1985 | See Source »

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