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...martial-law decree, all residents of Kabul were ordered to surrender firearms to the police within 24 hours; violators would be taken before "military-revolutionary" courts. A TASS dispatch from Kabul explained that the Interior Ministry had ordered the martial law and curfew in response to "plunder and arson" by Muslim insurgents and what it called "foreign agents, mercenaries and stooges...
...million in losses suffered by one syndicate headed by Underwriter Frederick ("Tim") Sasse. Between 1975 and 1977 this group amassed an amazing collection of bad risks. Some 1,300 claims worth $22.7 million were paid out in fire-insurance policies issued in Canada and the U.S., many in the arson-plagued South Bronx. The Sasse syndicate had also reportedly exceeded its premium-issuing limit by some 3½ times. Now 38 members of the group, who are under pressure to come up with an average $448,000 each, are suing the insurance exchange and challenging the sacred unlimited liability rule...
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...fire, described in wonderfully horrific narrative slow motion, is not the climax but the ignition point of Endless Love. The night of the fire, Jade and her family, the Butterfields, are performing a countercultural experiment and become paralyzed by LSD; David rushes in to save them. But his passionate arson destroys his love affair, drives the Butterfields away to another city and lands David in a downstate mental institution...
...open competitive process involving a written and oral test. One sergeant has already been promoted and Chafin intends to fill that vacancy this November. In addition, he has sent officers and supervisors to training schools in the metropolitan area for instruction in fingerprinting, criminal investigation, supervisory skills and arson--a move he claims has helped to increase the officer's sense of job security. The union now regrets its push for promotions since sergeants and lieutenants are salaried, rather than hourly employees. "I wish the department would put a freeze on promotions to enable the union to be more stable...