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COLLEGE PARK. Md.--Arson caused a two-alarm fire that last month swept through the student union at the College Park campus of the University of Maryland, William J. Lopes, a spokesman for the university, said this week...
Representatives of Local 26--the hotel, restaurant, institutional employees, and bartenders union, concluded their presentation in favor of Valdemar Arruda, a University cook fired last year after he was convicted of arson--arguing that the 11-year employee had met the necessary conditions to be reinstated...
...yesterday's hearing Local 26 of the AFL-CIO presented five witnesses supporting their position that Vladimir Arruda should be rehired after he was convicted of attempting to set fire to a local Portugese social club. He is currently on three years probation for attempted arson...
Equally sobering was the assessment of city and state inspectors that the fire was probably caused by arson. The circumstantial evidence was persuasive. There had been three previous fires of suspicious origin within two weeks, all of them next door to the building where officials believe the blaze began. But baffled investigators could find no rational motive: the building belonged to a state-chartered development agency, and was minimally insured. Dejected Lynn leaders can take heart from the example of Chelsea, Mass. (pop. 25,431), just five miles southwest. In October 1973 a fire there destroyed 360 buildings over...
King praised the introduction of monetary incentives to combat the "arson epidemic." "When people have an incentive, programs seem to work better," King said yesterday...