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...more than a year, a band of white supremacists known as the Order has waged its own private war against the "Zionist Occupation Government" of the U.S. In Seattle last week, federal officials continued their all-out attack on the neo-Nazi gang, announcing the indictment of 23 members under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations Act (RICO). The indictment charges that members of the Order were responsible for crimes including counterfeiting, armored-car robberies and two murders, one of them the assassination of radio Talk-Show Host Alan Berg in Denver. It was the first time the RICO statute...
...sentence: life imprisonment. Wang's two aides, Major General Hu Yi-min, deputy director of the bureau, and Colonel Chen Hu-men, another Defense Ministry official, were each given 2½-year jail terms. The verdicts came ten days after the leader of Taiwan's powerful Bamboo Union Gang, Chen Chi-li, and his lieutenant, Wu Tun, were sentenced in a civilian court to life imprisonment for carrying out the murder...
DIED. James Briley, 28, murderer convicted of killing a pregnant Virginia woman as well as her five-year-old son and implicated in other 1979 gang killings; by electrocution; in Richmond. The same electric chair six months earlier had claimed Briley's older brother Linwood, also convicted of multiple murders, with whom he and four other men escaped for 19 days in the greatest death-row breakout in history; a third brother is serving a life sentence for murder. Club-wielding fellow prisoners attempted to stop James' execution in a 30-minute uprising that left nine guards and one inmate...
...contention of Sterling Seagrave's compelling new book that the Soongs were, pre-eminently, a family in the Mario Puzo sense. Invoking the Borgias, the author portrays the clan as a gang of thieves most at home in the Wild East, a hugger-mugger underworld where dishes were routinely poisoned, enemies buried alive and coffins left on doorsteps. The Soong Dynasty is a guided (and sometimes misguided) tour through this blood-soaked landscape. En route, a rush of striking images flash past: the uprooted Charlie living off the kindness of Southern strangers and being fed, on antebellum verandas, heavy doses...
...latest real-life version of the hit movie WarGames, in which an ingenious teenager penetrates a sensitive military computer system and nearly sets off World War III. Two years ago, for instance, the story was re-enacted by the so-called 414 Gang, a group of Milwaukee-area youths who used their machines to break into dozens of computers across...