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...juvenile recreation and rehabilitation projects, also maintains a staff of 100 conscientious street workers who work in crime-ridden neighborhoods to counsel gangs and to reduce their violent activities. The Youth Board believes in allowing gangs to remain intact because they provide a juvenile sense of security and comradeship. The board distinguishes between "bopping" (attacking) gangs and defensive gangs that fight back only when attacked. Youth Board workers "mediate cools" (arrange truces) between gangs, get them to agree to avoid one another's proscribed "turf" (territory...
...members live in a Brooklyn housing project. All but a few of them are Negro; there are separate Puerto Rican gangs, and thoroughly integrated ones. The members are, in their own language, all "shook up" and cling together for defense against others as well as for the comradeship they can find nowhere else. They range in age from eleven to 20, occupy themselves chiefly with the protection of their own "turf" (territory). Trespassing on one gang's turf by another gang-or the stealing of another's property or girl, even an insult-may bring on councils...
...area. Warouw sought out Sukarno in Japan's state guest house. Warouw's account of the interview (as relayed by Sumual): "I told him to get rid of the Reds or quit, himself. He reproached me for these words, and asked if I had forgotten our past comradeship. I reminded him I once saved his life in Surabaya during the war against the Dutch, but told him: 'You must make a decision one way or the other. This is the point of no return.' He begged me for more time; I told him if he refused...
...than with strictness." Keynote of Spock's latest advice to parents: "Trust yourself." Instinct, he says, prompts most parents to give children the "natural loving care" needed in routine growth. All the emphasis on the child's needs-"for love, for understanding, for patience . . . for protection, for comradeship"-has given the impression that parents have no needs or rights. Not so, says Spock...
...satellites, Albanians the only one where there was no easing up after Stalin's death, and when Moscow made friends with Tito two years ago, Albania conspicuously did not join the comradeship. In fact, whenever Moscow wants to show its contempt of Tito, it lets Albania's Dictator Hoxha denounce him, and then lengthily quotes Hoxha in Pravda. This is doubly humiliating because Tito detests Hoxha, and believes that if he is to be shot at, Moscow might at least use heavier artillery...