Word: fires
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...beloved Vice President and his wife." Replied Nixon: "I don't think that either of us has ever been so moved . . . returning as we do." Minutes later the homecoming caravan rolled away from the airport, along streets lined with 100,000 people, under a triumphant arch of fire-engine ladders, to the White House, where Nixon spent the next hour and a half reporting on his trip to the President and Secretary of State John Foster Dulles...
...things were finally ready, the two hoods herded their captives out the back door unharmed, threw a flaming packet of matches inside, closed the door and drove off into the night while one of Cook County's biggest and best restaurants exploded into a million-dollar fire...
...Sovereign? At first. Restaurateur Gustav Allgauer was breathing fire and brimstone and all manner of indignation, promising to "tell everything I know.'' Then, suddenly, he switched signals and wanted to know what all the fuss was about -meanwhile prudently surveying the $1.000,000 worth of damage with his insurance broker...
...timing. He had merely fanned existing discontent beforehand, and his agents were prepared to ride it afterward. As Cairo, Damascus and Moscow radios dinned encouragement of the insurrection, a message crossed the Syrian border, on the person of an eccentric Belgian diplomat, addressed to persons unknown, in Beirut: "Fire at police, disarm agents. Continue shooting all day. Blow up the presidential palace. Kill whenever necessary; throw bombs from roofs and in streets. Burn a few cars during nights: this is indispensable. Take Tripoli as an example and do the same." Agitators need not invent events to profit by them...
...January 1957, with the Algerian rebellion in full tilt and the capital city terrorized by bomb attacks, Massu was named Military Commander of Algiers. With 20,000 paratroopers, spearheaded by his own loth Parachute Division, he directed the cleanup of terrorists with thudding thoroughness and violence. He came under fire in France for the "police state" operations of his network of 1,500 block informants, and the torture methods admittedly used by his men on captured Moslems...