Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...present an inglorious picture of China's past, but political changes after Mao's death make such a picture politically safe for the author. Deng Xiao-Ping, the new premier, entered office with a movement to discredit the "leftist" policies of Mao's widow, Jiang Qing, and her "Gang of Four", Liang sees those policies as the source of the problems he narrates, and properly disassociates the new from the old regime. Significantly, the book shows almost no opinion on the new regime or its policies, and that reticence renders many of Liang's observation ambiguous--even the questions which...
There is circumstantial evidence linking the Soviet Union to West European terrorist groups such as the Red Brigades in Italy and the Baader-Meinhof gang in West Germany. When members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army went on a hunger strike in Northern Ireland's Maze Prison in the spring of 1981, for example, British intelligence agents noticed that senior KGB officials held a number of meetings with Provo leaders in Dublin. Says a top Western intelligence expert: "The Soviets back groups and people who are certifiably terrorist, but they do it with their fingers crossed and with their hands...
...evening, stabbed him to death. Thus Mallaha became chieftain, Phoolan second in command. Dressed in blue jeans and a multicolored turban, brandishing a stolen bullhorn and a rifle, she quickly earned a reputation as a deadly shot. When Mallaha's restive followers killed him, Phoolan formed her own gang. On Feb. 14, 1981, to avenge her lover's murder, she and her marauders gunned down 20 apparently innocent citizens in the village of Behmai...
...beauty she once was." She is also hunted by vengeful enemies. As a result, Phoolan has begun negotiating for police protection in exchange for her surrender. The legends will surely persist, but Phoolan may be shedding her image as India's deadliest woman. Two weeks ago, her gang encircled a bicyclist near the Chambal River. Phoolan scolded her victim for traveling alone in such dangerous country and, when she learned that he had lost part of a leg in the 1971 war with Pakistan, gave him $20 and sent him home with greetings for his family...
...onetime movie starlet, Jiang beguiled Mao sufficiently to become his fourth wife and, from 1966 to 1976, the remorseless doyenne of the Cultural Revolution. During that purge, the Gang of Four (Jiang; Zhang; Wang Hongwen, 48, now serving a life sentence; and Yao Jiang in court Wenyuan, 51, serving 20 years) was responsible for some 35,000 deaths. They persecuted former Head of State Liu Shaoqi and vilified China's current leader, Deng Xiaoping, 78. Following the group's 1976 arrest one month after Mao's death, Jiang was reviled as a "white-boned demon," a perfidious...