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Nuclear weapons in the hands of extremists willing to use them would produce terrorism of a wholly new magnitude. The central logic of terrorism is to maximize horror and shock, producing a blaze of publicity and attention for the cause it represents. By that measure, the crudest of fission bombs set off in a modern city, vaporizing entire blocks, would make the crimes of Carlos and his ilk rank as little more than pinpricks...
Calvin Jones stood among the crowd of onlookers as the blaze demolished the school. "When I saw the school burning, tears just came rolling down my face," he says. "My father went to that school, and three of my brothers had graduated from there, and I was getting ready to graduate...
Federal investigators said a weekend fire that totaled Alabama's racially troubled Randolph County High School was arson. The FBI and U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms say "an accelerant" caused the blaze. Meanwhile, the man at the center of the racial fire storm, ex-principal Hulond Humphries, got slapped with a lawsuit from a local TV cameraman. Bill Gill's tape shows Humphries and another man slamming Gill to the ground. The reporter, who is black, says the incident was racially motivated and points to racist statements made during the alleged assault...
Record heat and extreme drought combined to ignite the fire season in 11 Western states. On Colorado's Storm King Mountain, 14 fire fighters were killed when they were overtaken by a wind-whipped blaze. In the East, heavy rainfall from the stalled remnants of tropical storm Alberto caused severe flooding in Georgia and Alabama, claiming 24 lives...
Berzofsky said that another roommate, Thomas I. Parks '96, and Parks' younger brother, who was visiting for the weekend, used a fire extinguisher to put out the blaze. Their action may have prevented further damage...