HOME FRONT: Not long after shots were...
HOME FRONT: Not long after shots were fired at Kent State (A1), Orange County got its own taste of Vietnam-era campus violence. . . . Shortly after midnight on Oct. 26, 1970, arsonists painted anti-government slogans on the walls of the Bank of America branch at UCI, then burned it to a shell. . . . The blaze shocked those who considered the county’s campuses tame by 1970 standards. Most students said outsiders had set the fire. No one was arrested.
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