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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After the fall of the Gang of Four both Hsiao and Yang were despatched back to their former newspaper jobs--Yang writes special assignments, interviewing prominent people, and Hsiao travels throughout China as a special correspondent...

Author: By Andrea Fastenberg, | Title: The View From the East | 11/15/1984 | See Source »

...replied, "I could never have done that to Mummy." Later on, after Mrs. Gandhi was returned to office from her post-emergency defeat, Rajiv is said to have taken a dim view of the oldtime politicians who were again fawning over his mother and his brother. "All the old gang is back," he once remarked with a touch of irony...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indira Gandhi: Death in the Garden | 11/12/1984 | See Source »

...gang of youths assaulted an unnamed undergraduate last Thursday night near the Anderson Bridge, police said. The victim was punched and hit on the back with a stick, and was taken to University Health Services for treatment of a head laceration and a concussion...

Author: By Brian W. Kladko, | Title: Officials Suspect Prank in Winthrop Fire | 11/10/1984 | See Source »

Reagan: This is Ron. The right hand gang and I are boozing it up pretty well on these sunny western shores, but listen, I just wanted to thank you for all the help on our campaign blitz...

Author: By Charles C. Matthews, | Title: Strange Bedfellows | 11/9/1984 | See Source »

...testified through voice-altering devices. A Japanese gangster held up his hand to show how he had chopped off half his ringer to prove his repentance after having been disrespectful to his leader. He had put the severed finger in a small jar and sent it to the gang boss. One expert on the Chinese gangs told how members drank wine laced with both human and chicken blood while being initiated into their crime societies. He claimed that they condoned the murder of infants so that the tiny bodies could be stuffed with heroin and carried across international borders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Triads and the Yakuza | 11/5/1984 | See Source »

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