Word: arson
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...Greenwich will be added to a national bill that is already of staggering proportions-and it is rising steeply every year. No one can fix an accurate price tag on vandalism, which is not always reported, not always identifiable as such and covers everything from toilet graffiti to arson. But the U.S. Office of Education in Washington sets the annual cost of destruction in public schools alone at more than $100 million. In New York City, the cost of school vandalism amounted to an estimated $6,500,000 last year. Public telephones are another prime target; some $10 million...
...killed a teenager in the cab of his pickup in a parking lot. So many cars were being attacked in "smash-and-run" incidents while passing the Nickerson Gardens housing project that authorities walled off the adjacent highway with a spiked metal fence. Fire Captain Tom Crowley says arson has become a spectator sport, with punks torching buildings "just to watch us work." Bobby Spears, 31, a janitor and father of four, knows who robbed him recently but will not press charges out of fear for his family's safety...
...hellish rioting in Watts in the mid-1960s set a stunning new level for civil violence. Touched off improbably enough by a simple traffic arrest that brought police and blacks into conflict, the disturbance rumbled into rock-throwing disorder that soon exploded into almost a week of looting, arson and assault. With entire blocks reduced to ash and rubble, the name Watts came to signify not just a black ghetto in south-central Los Angeles but black unrest across the U.S. By the time troops and police brought peace to what had become a 46.5-sq.-mi. war zone...
...issue, too, was why a fire ignited by the explosive was allowed to consume Move's building until it was too late to prevent it from spreading to adjacent homes. Firemen stood back in hopes that the blaze would destroy a bunker on the building's roof. Arson Expert Charles G. King, a former New York City supervising fire marshal, said the flames could easily have been extinguished up until 6:15 p.m. But by the time the hoses were turned on at 6:30 p.m., the fire had spread below the roof line and was out of control...
...Judge Ronald Gilbert entered the chamber, followed moments later by Defendants Dominique Prieur, 36, and Alain Mafart, 35. For the two French intelligence agents, the long-awaited preliminary inquiry was finally under way. At issue: whether the pair would have to face trial for murder and arson in the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior, the flagship of the Greenpeace environmental movement, in Auckland harbor last July...