Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...York City another awful crime. A 28-year-old jogger was attacked in Central Park by a gang of teens from nearby Harlem. Police say the boys hunted her down, beat and raped her savagely and left her for dead. At week's end she remained in a coma...
NATION: A brutal gang rape in New York's Central Park stirs fears about a new breed of children without mercy...
...which preceded major political turning points. In 1976, after the death of Premier Zhou Enlai, crowds numbering 100,000 marched through the square and eventually were brutally routed by club-wielding police. The demonstrations were widely interpreted as a revolt against the leftist policies of the so- called Gang of Four, who at the time had effectively seized power from the dying Mao Zedong. Two days later the Gang of Four, led by Mao's wife Jiang Qing, sacked Deng, the recently rehabilitated Senior Deputy Premier whom they suspected of masterminding the demonstrations. But after Mao died five months later...
...most important lesson of last week's events was the degree to which China has changed since the deaths of Zhou and Mao, the downfall of the Gang of Four and the emergence of Deng. Says Fang Lizhi: "At the time of Premier Zhou's death, the people liked him, but they thought of him as a good dictator. The people were still Marxists then." By contrast, continues Fang, who welcomes the transition, the people no longer speak of Marxism, and when | they venerate a man like Hu Yaobang, they are paying homage to him not as a benign dictator...
This in a city known for some of the country's worst air pollution, traffic jams that last most of the day and more than 400 gang-related murders last year; a city where 60% of the people polled said they thought the quality of life has become worse and where half of 12,000 people polled said they had considered moving away in the past year...