Word: arsons
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...community services and provoking new excesses of bigotry and xenophobia across the U.S. In Texas, for instance, Vietnamese refugees operating shrimp boats in Galveston Bay have stirred resentment among local fishermen and received threats from the Ku Klux Klan. Three of the refugees' boats have caught fire; though arson is suspected, no arrests have been made...
Unconvinced that the fire started all that accidentally, police charged Cline with arson and eight homicides. If convicted, he could be sentenced to death...
...Nazis nailed down their hold on the nation. The decision last week did not specifically exonerate Van der Lubbe, who was tried by a Nazi court, found guilty and executed by beheading in 1934. Rather, the court's ruling implied that, if involved at all in the Reichstag arson, he may have been manipulated by the Nazis...
...ruling grew out of a series of at least eight upstate New York fires set by an arson ring between 1970 and 1973. One of the men found guilty was Eugene DiFrancesco, who was convicted and sentenced to nine years in a separate trial for his part in the 1970 bombing of a federal building in Rochester. Under the Organized Crime Control Act of 1970, the prosecutor in the racketeering case had asked the judge to find that DiFrancesco was a "dangerous special offender" and therefore subject to additional punishment beyond the 20-year maximum. The judge consented...
...worst of the brushfires was "Panorama," and it certainly lived up to its' name. In its panoramic sweep the fire burned out 23,000 acres in San Bernardino County, the area hardest hit by the flames. Started by arson, the fire storm burned down the hillsides into the San Bernardino suburbs, then back up through Waterman Canyon. In affluent North Park, a roaring wall of flame incinerated whole blocks of expensive houses, leaving nothing but ashen rectangles and soot-covered swimming pools. Four died: an elderly couple who perished as they tried to save a pet, and two other...