Word: ganged
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Though of greater magnitude, the massacre was gruesomely reminiscent of the Tiananmen Square riots of 1976. Widespread revulsion over that bloodbath led to the downfall of the infamous Gang of Four, headed by Mao's wife Jiang Qing, and the ascendance to power two years later of Deng. Unable to accept the new world crying out from the streets, Deng appears to have reverted to a hoary Maoist maxim: "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun." With devastating carnage, Deng proved he could unleash the firepower. But now that his regime is riding the military tiger...
...Sichuan's capital, Chengdu, the provincial radio said 100 people were arrested after what it called a "gang of scoundrels" stormed city offices Sunday and beat up 300 security officials. There were unconfirmed reports that 20 people had been killed in clashes with security forces...
...Angeles last April, a twelve-year-old girl was kidnaped and assaulted over the next four days by dozens of teenage members of the Rolling 40s Crips gang. Five months ago in Columbia, S.C., two boys ages 13 and 14 were charged with raping an eleven-year-old girl in school. In Houston last October, three youths ages 14, 15 and 16 abducted and raped a 26-year-old woman during a three-day crime spree...
Many people fear gang rapes or being the random target of a sociopath. In fact, say many experts, the offending youth most often acts alone, is a respectable member of the community and knows the victim. So-called date rape is one of the most common adolescent sexual crimes...
...tennis community too, freethinking Soviets are multiplying. Olga Morozova, the pig-tailed pioneer who occasionally popped into grand-slam finals during the '70s, now coaches a raft of promising young countrymen and -women known as the Glasnost Gang. The most precocious gangster is Natalia Zvereva, 18, who is also the most perestroika-emboldened. She has won $515,000 professionally, but since much of it has been diverted into state coffers, she gripes, "I still don't have enough money for a Mercedes." When last seen, Zvereva was stomping back to the Kremlin to have it out with her agents...