Word: firebombs
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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ARRESTED. SAM BOWERS, 73, former Ku Klux Klan Imperial Wizard and subject of a May 18 TIME special investigation, along with two other alleged ex-Klansmen; charged with the 1966 firebomb murder of civil rights leader Vernon Dahmer Sr.; in Hattiesburg, Miss...
...Nine people died in the firebomb attack on tourist buses outside the Egyptian Museum ? the largest attack in Cairo in two years. Says Radwan: "Although there has been some fighting in the south of the country, Cairo has been very quiet, and this came as a surprise ? at a time when tourism is booming...
...kidnap complaint against Vincent. (She won $2.56 million from him in a civil suit, but he had no funds.) When Singleton moved in 1988 to his native Florida, the reception was equally hostile. A Tampa car dealer offered him $5,000 to get out of the state, and a firebomb exploded on his lawn. He had more luck later in Orient Park, where he moved into a house owned by his family. Some neighbors were ignorant of his past. Others felt sure Singleton had put it behind him. He proffered small gifts and helped out with tasks...
...equivalent of a mob of whites torching a black church, killing parishioners and burning its holy objects. Yet, while the tunnel received enormous coverage complete with diagrams, the desecration at Joseph's Tomb, if reported at all, merited at most a few sentences. And a similar Palestinian attempt to firebomb Judaism's third holiest shrine, Rachel's Tomb in Bethlehem, received in the major American press no mention at all, save one in the New York Times--in a picture caption on page...
POSSIBLE INCONVENIENCE: May convince Moral Majority to pick Widener as firebomb target...