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Gateway Project may seem a quiet, unremarkable little operation. In fact, however, the 60 to 70 clients now live under a reign of fear-four inexplicable cases of arson so far and one of murder...
...looming budget deficit of as much as $1 billion, as well as the immediate cash-flow pinch, Beame offered an $11.9 billion "crisis" budget for fiscal 1976 that would be balanced by laying off about 50,000 city employees, including police and firemen at a time when crime and arson are ominously rising. With inflammatory rhetoric that hardly squares with his image as a mild-mannered bookkeeper intent on keeping the peace in New York, Beame lashed out in his budget message at his chosen scapegoat: the city bankers, no longer willing to fund the city's debt, whom...
...Stuttgart last week. Four self-styled urban guerrillas, each handcuffed to a policeman, were ushered into a custom-built, top-security courthouse. There they faced charges on five counts of murder (including those of four U.S. servicemen), 54 counts of attempted murder and multiple counts of bank robbery, arson, bombing, forgery and grand larceny. After the recent murder of West Berlin Supreme Court Judge Giinter von Drenkmann, the kidnaping of Berlin Opposition Leader Peter Lorenz, the bombing of the West German embassy in Stockholm and the Shootout between terrorists and police in Cologne three weeks ago, authorities were taking...
...freshman girl was raped on a third-floor stair landing during orientation week last summer. Once classes started, a home-economics teacher and a Russian teacher were attacked by students. A school accountant was robbed. Throughout the year the school was plagued by arson, larceny and vandalism. Security officers were called almost daily to break up fights or investigate thefts...
...impending explosion. The Government contends that the psychic preacher indulged in a bit of self-fulfilling prophecy: Bubar allegedly paid out part of Moeller's money to Peter Betres, 54, a Butler, Pa., hotelkeeper who in turn paid off a gallery of other suspects. Thus recruited, the arson team bought dynamite, detonating material and 24 drumfuls of gasoline. Then they gathered at the plant on the day of the crime, together with Bubar, who arranged to let them in. They proceeded to blow up the factory...