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...Jersey City. A week later in Cambridge, Md., amid racial tension, he declared: "If America doesn't come around, then black people are going to burn it down." After parts of Cambridge did indeed burn down that July of 1967, Brown was charged with inciting to riot and arson. He vanished in March 1970 while out on $10,000 bail, shortly after a bomb blast killed two of his associates while they were driving in Bel Air, Md.-where pretrial hearings for Brown were being held...
...community can escalate toward tragedy. Michener convinces the reader when he says: "Kent could be your community." He conveys the diverse personalities involved: the shy, scholarly university president, the ambitious anticampus county prosecutor. He demonstrates fondness for the students who died and also revulsion at the window-smashing and arson tactics of the student rioters. Michener puts some controversies into perspective. There were off-campus agitators inflaming the crowd, and most students were unaware that the fatal Monday rally had been declared illegal...
...five hundred students staged a walk-out from a Dorchester high school February 4, Chairman of the School Committee Paul Tierney (Louise Day Hicks' successor), citing a "national conspiracy to disrupt and destroy the public school system," sent uniformed and plainclothes policemen into four Boston high schools to prevent arson and keep non-students out of the buildings. He said the conspiracy was made up of "extremists, the Progressive Labor Party, communist sympathizers, and SDS." Three weeks later one fourth of the students in thirteen Boston high schools went on strike asking for an end to harassment of black students...
Medford police captain Robert Glynn, who is heading the investigation, said last night that police had not yet determined the authenticity of a note from a group calling itself, "the Arson squad" which claimed responsibility for the bombing...
...group calling itself "The Arson Squad" claimed responsibility for the bombing in a note tacked Sunday to the door of the Tufts student radio station. The note said that the group took the action to "express solidarity with the people of Laos who are fighting American imperialism led by agents trained in a large part at Fletcher...