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Burning Issue. Arson often increases during economic slumps, but insurance men say that the problem has never been as bad as it is now. The Fireman's Fund a San Francisco-based insurer reports that about 20% of the fires in stores and other commercial establishments are believed to be set by desperate proprietors. In normal times, only 5% of the commercial fires are suspicious. There has also been a surge in fires in mobile homes as more and more owners fall behind in their installment payments...
...capital offenses in North Carolina. In 1973 the state supreme court ruled that for all crimes that once carried an optional death sentence, execution must now be the punishment. Then the state legislature passed a somewhat more lenient law, which last April changed the penalty to life imprisonment for arson, first-degree burglary and nonforcible rape. But the lawmakers did not see fit to make it retroactive...
Piazza, who has a long criminal record, was subsequently convicted on unrelated arson charges and is currently serving a term at Walpole...
...person in the town questioned that the fire was caused by arson; the only question was by whom it was set. The whites charged that blacks had set the fire as a response to the injunction. The blacks charged that whites had started the fire--it destroyed a store owned by Hubert F. Mills. And Mills was the only merchant in town who had refused to sign the petition requesting the injunction...
...Montoneros, a leftist guerrilla organization that helped return Perón to power in 1973, accused Isabel of "harboring imperialists and oligarchs" and then declared war on her government. Issuing their "War Communiqué No. 1" at a clandestine press conference, the Montoneros threatened a terrorist campaign of arson, assassination, sabotage and bombing. As a chilling reminder of their past exploits, they also released a detailed report of how they kidnaped former President Pedro Eugenic Aramburu in 1970, stuffed him into a truckload of hay, and transported him to a ranch outside Buenos Aires, where he was summarily tried, sentenced...