Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...median income is $4,575 a year, and almost eight out of ten famines are headed by one parent. The TV comedy Good Times-about a loving, industrious black mother and children-is centered on a family at Cabrini-Green, but the project may be more like the gang-war surrealism of The Warriors. The rat-infested buildings are ravaged: graffiti-scarred stairwells, bashed-in doors, broken elevators, roaches everywhere. And the streets and hallways are ruled by marauding youth gangs that police say number 100 in all. Squads of Cobra Stones live at Cabrini-Green, and they...
...gangs also rob, assault and occasionally kill nonmembers, almost at will. Clifford Smiley, 14, who was once attacked and beaten by four gang members for no apparent reason, is resigned to life in a battle zone. Like most residents, he does not venture outside after dark, even to visit someone in a neighboring building. Says he: "If you can't talk to your friend on the telephone, you can't talk to him at all." Last summer during a card game in an open-air hallway, Terri Burch, 17, was shot in the leg by a sniper...
Already, say residents, some gang members have gone looking for quieter havens. But one 16-year-old at Cabrini-Green is not hopeful. Says the girl: "They're going to stop shooting until the mayor moves out. Then they're going to start shooting again...
...During the intervening hours she was raped repeatedly, a11 night long, by more than a dozen local punks, many of them stoned on marijuana. Hawaiians, especially those concerned with an enormous tourist industry, were already deeply disturbed about the state's rising crime rate. The brutal 1979 gang rape of the innocent tourist who came to be known in the press as "Anna" made headlines at once. Hawaiians started a Help Anna fund that soon reached $5,000. More than a thousand angry islanders wrote letters of protest to newspapers and politicians. Legislators in turn cranked...
Singer in a soul band, he was rehearsing with his group when hit in the back by shots fired through a window. Police arrested a member of a street gang...