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...shout "Rubbish!" during one of former Prime Minister Harold Wilson's stump speeches, and Wilson would imperturbably answer, "Sir, we will get to your area of special interest in just a moment." Other politicians have got down to the darker possibilities. Once in 1921, Adolf Hitler led a gang of Brownshirts into a meeting that was to be addressed by a Bavarian federalist named Ballerstedt. "We got what we wanted," Hitler said. "Ballerstedt did not speak." Hitler explained, "The National Socialist Movement will in the future ruthlessly prevent, if necessary by force, all meetings or lectures that are likely...
...University of Pennsylvania withdrew recognition of the Alpha Tan Omega (ATO) fraternity there last week following an investigation of charges that a woman was gang-raped by members of the fraternity at a party two months...
...rival groups taunt and threaten each other; once in a while they rumble; sometimes a flare of gang anger can lead to sudden death. One such incident sends two greasers, Ponyboy (C. Thomas Howell) and Johnny (Ralph Macchio), on a trek away from Tulsa to live on the lam and find new ways of being brave and getting hurt. Another greaser, Dallas (Matt Dillon), provides a role model for sexy self-destruction. The bleak moral of Francis Coppola's movie, based on an S.E. Hinton novel that has sold 4 million copies in the U.S., is that...
Officials at the University of Pennsylvania today will complete a month-long investigation into allegations that members of a campus fraternity gang-rapped a Penn under graduate in February...
Just a few months later, in New York, three Black transit workers stopped their car in the white neighborhood of Gravesend to get a midnight snack on the way home from work. A gang of white men attacked them; Dennis Dixon fled, and Donald Cooper escaped with the help of a piece of pipe. Their friend and co-worker, William Turks, whose arm was in a cast, was not so lucky. The whites dragged him from the car, and killed him with what was officially described as "overlapping blows to the head by a blunt object like a stick...