Word: gang
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Written under the pseudonym Andrew Macdonald in 1978 by William Pierce, leader of a white supremacist group in Arlington, Va., The Turner Diaries was taken seriously by one militant group in the Northwest. Federal and state authorities say that members of a 30to-40-person gang calling itself The Order, apparently named for the revolutionaries in Pierce's book, were responsible for a $500,000 armored-car robbery last April in Seattle; a $3.6 million Brink's armored-car holdup last July in Ukiah, Calif.; and three shootouts with the police and FBI since October in Idaho, Oregon and Washington...
...gang's founder, Robert J. Mathews, 31, was killed during a gunfight with federal agents on Whidbey Island in Puget Sound last Dec. 7. A companion of Mathews, Gary Lee Yarbrough, 29, is a suspect in the murder last June 18 of Alan Berg, an outspoken Jewish radio talk-show host in Denver. Authorities say that members of The Order, which is also known as the Silent Brotherhood and the White American Bastion, were also involved in counterfeiting. Says Montana FBI Agent Toby Harding: "These are dangerous, violent people." Declares Idaho Undersheriff Larry Broadbent: "They actually believed that a revolution...
...here come seven new youth movies to glut the glut. Tuff Turf, a gang movie set in Los Angeles, plays like the Beat It video at feature length. Fandango sends five college guys on a West Texas spree. Heaven Help Us has five Roman Catholic schoolboys getting cute in the confessional and decapitating a statue of their school's patron saint. Mischief pairs a wimp and a stud in the small-town '50s. In Tomboy, Betsy Russell is a Flashdance- style mechanic who goes stock-car racing. In Vision Quest, Rocky pins Flashdance on the high school wrestling...
Only four days before Zimmermann's death, the R.A.F., an offshoot of the notorious Baader-Meinhof gang of the 1970s, smashed windows of six banks and attempted a fire-bombing of an electronics company warehouse in Bremen. It was the 30th such strike by the R.A.F. since early December, when 30 imprisoned members of the terrorist group began a hunger strike for better prison conditions...
...controversial Big Dan's gang rape trial will soon be scrutinized by students at the law School, which last week received videotapes compiled by a local cable television station...