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...public insurance adjusters, one police officer and a retired fire chief. By week's end a total of 26 men had been arraigned in Suffolk County superior court on charges as varied as fraud, bribery and murder. But all of them were alleged to have committed one crime: arson. They were accused of contracting with landlords, financially troubled shopkeepers, warehouse owners and others to burn down their buildings for the insurance, with the arsonists taking a percentage of the claim...
...that therapeutic methods using cannabis could be successfully applied to patients suffering from this modern neurosis. He draws a parallel between the symptoms of a heroin addict going through severe withdrawal and an individual suffering from an "acute anxiety neurosis episode." Humes attributes the rise in the incidence of arson, rape, and other types of crime to this widespread upswing in anxiety neurosis, saying that the acceptance of his therapeutic method would go a long way toward alleviating this nationwide problem...
...like crossing the street or selling goods-have become fraught with fear," says Associate Editor Edwin Warner, who wrote this week's cover story on the growing American scourge of juvenile crime. The article profiles a new breed of delinquent-youngsters who casually commit murder, rape, assault and arson. It discusses the reasons for their delinquency, and describes the floundering juvenile justice system that must deal with them...
...also promised to seek a political amnesty, "since we don't accept the principle of crimes of opinion." Ecevit carefully exempted crimes of violence, however. He is aware that many of the 250 leftist criminals in Turkish prisons are there not for what they thought, but for rioting, arson and murder...
Unlawful Burning. The Wilmington affair erupted in early February 1971, when tensions resulting from school desegregation led to widespread demonstrations, arson, shootings and other violence. A black civil rights organizer, the Rev. Benjamin F. Chavis, then 23, was sent to the city by the United Church of Christ's Commission on Racial Justice; he quickly became a leader of the black demonstrators. Just five days after his arrival, someone bombed Mike's Grocery, 300 yds. from Chavis' headquarters at the manse of Gregory Congregational Church. In that weekend of violence, one middle-aged white...