Word: gang
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Music by the Gang of Four will blare in your ears as you look through marxist and third world literature in Revolution Books (1 Arrow...
Another time, somebody asked Smith about the plot we were all working on, and he said, "The answer to this mystery is a little bit more complicated than the Talmud." Well, that set them off. You see, not everybody in the gang was familiar with the Talmud. A lot of these people came because the weekend was in a Neiman-Marcus catalog and they're from places like Texas and stuff. "What's the Talmud?" one of the Texans inquired...
...looking automaton is caught in a lot of crossfire. There are rotten Italian gangsters, rotten Colombian gangsters and rotten fellow police officers. As Sergeant Eddie Cusak, Norris refuses to go along with the cover-up of a killing by a scruffy underling (Ralph Foody) and tries to mediate a gang war. He may be good, but he has no family and no girlfriend, and gets uncomfortable the one time he is obliged to hug a woman. He displays an unfailing courage and shoots straight, period. But this is a new Norris: he creams bad guys with roundhouse bursts of martial...
...dubbed Roughrider, part of a larger effort by Washington to snuff out new and unorthodox forms of organized crime. Authorities confiscated $2 million worth of illegal drugs during their investigation, including methamphetamines, cocaine and LSD. A similar multistate raid in February corralled about 90 members of a rival motorcycle gang, the Bandidos, on drug and weapons charges. Declared Attorney General Edwin Meese in announcing the operation: "Once again, we see the consummate value of the undercover technique in a particularly dangerous and difficult undertaking designed to penetrate and expose a major criminal enterprise...
Much of the information leading to the arrests came from Kevin Bonner, an intrepid FBI agent who went undercover for more than two years, infiltrating the motorcycle gang and crisscrossing the country to do drug deals with different Hell's Angels chapters. Bonner and an unnamed informant who traveled with him also unearthed leads on alleged bribery, extortion, contract murders and the harboring of fugitives by gang members. FBI Director William Webster claimed that the operation "averted five potential murders...