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...torching, they should final its caused even more troubling. If it were just the word of a few firebugs or linked to a general increase in crime, one would expect the arson to have centered on the city's most crime-ridden area, Roxbury--especially on hearing that vacant buildings, a common commodity there, were the targets of 70 percent of the fires. (The figures is the main reason the arson took no lives...
...first major upset of the political season occurred in New York last week. That result meant soft-spoken liberals will be the Democratic candidates for two important vacant governorships. In two heated House races, the candidates' family ties and their economic ideologies are likely to be decisive factors in November...
Unable to get a complete list of vacant apartments from HRE, the Craigie tenants conducted a canvassing of other Harvard-owned buildings with the help of the Harvard Tenants Union. In early August, they presented HRE officials with a list of apartments they had located...
...shoppers who normally thronged the downtown streets of Nairobi (pop. about 970,000) were rushing for home by midafternoon to observe a dusk-to-dawn curfew, leaving the city center a ghost town. Blocks of shops in the downtown area were boarded up, concealing the shattered windows and vacant shelves left behind by an orgy of looting. Occasionally, sprawled corpses could be seen on city streets, evidence that a tough government crackdown was still in progress in one of black Africa's most pro-Western and pro-capitalist countries. All told, at least 129 Kenyans were dead...
...plane struck a power line, veered farther to the left. Spewing balls of fire into the air, it tore through four blocks of Kenner and exploded into bits of charred metal. Thirteen houses were leveled. The plane's nose smashed into one house, skidded through a vacant lot, caromed through two more blocks. The tail with its Pan Am insignia plowed to a stop in someone's yard; it was the only section of the plane still intact...