Word: firebombs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...daily Philly filly on page 7, fully clothed but flashing a thigh, a kneecap or some other item of civic pride. The paper devotes nearly half of its 60-odd pages to sports and most of the rest to staff-written tales of local crime and kindness (FIREBOMB HORROR; BOXER STILL LOVED DESPITE CHARGES). The Journal has no editorial page. "I like news," says Péladeau, "and my papers don't take political stands...
...Japan returned to prosperity, so did Hirohito. His principal palace, burned down during an American firebomb raid in 1945, was replaced by a new one in 1968 at the cost of $36 million. Maintenance of the imperial household these days costs the government $6.7 million a year-handsome remuneration for a man whose role is defined by the postwar constitution as a ceremonial "symbol of state...
...firebomb demolished two offices and damaged two others early yesterday morning at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University...
Sabotage in a time of National Emergency has never been used elsewhere against students involved in a campus disorder. It was used once before in St. Louis-in 1969, against a student who was caught trying to destroy the Army ROTC building at Washington University with a firebomb. It carries a maximum thirty-year sentence...
...firebomb thrown through the win-Dow of a ROTC building at Oregon State did little damage. But in Geneva, N. Y., a firebomb heavily damaged a ROTC building at Hobart College. A student was arrested and charged with arson...