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William Kennedy, the U.S. Attorney in San Diego, was just trying to do his job. When Kennedy accepted the presidential appointment last November, he found himself heir to a 14-month investigation of a Mexican gang that was stealing cars in California and taking them back across the border. Twenty-eight gang members had been indicted by the time Kennedy took office, and he soon recommended prosecuting a 29th, Miguel Nassar Haro. The trouble was, this conspirator had friends, or at least protectors, in Washington...
...Nassar and his DPS agents kept busy elsewhere as well. From 1979 to 1981, they and civilian members of the gang stole 600 cars from Southern California, then drove them across the border for sale at an average $14,000 apiece. One vehicle, a yellow Dodge van, was given by a DPS agent to Nassar. The thieves were known for their ruthlessness. When one southbound caravan of stolen cars was delayed by a slow-moving farmer's truck in Mexico, according to the Union, an agent simply shot the man to death. Beatings and gunplay were routine...
...came on Jan. 4, just 18 days after Dozier's kidnaping, when police picked up two suspected terrorists near Rome's Spanish Steps. The arrests led to raids on apartments that yielded documents containing a gold mine of information on hideouts, action plans, weapons caches-and other gang members. In all, more than 375 suspected left-wing terrorists have been arrested over the past two months...
...rebellion. Youthful crime has jumped 12.4% in the past year, with juveniles accounting for almost half of all criminal offenders in Japan. Violence on school grounds has increased 42% since 1980, and most of the crimes are committed against teachers. In January at Yoshikawa High School near Tokyo, a gang of 20 students surrounded a group of teachers in the school courtyard, accused them of inflicting pain on one of their number and began to beat them up. It took 20 patrolmen to subdue the boys, but not before ten teachers had been injured...
...athletes tend to sponsor 10 kilometer runs and dorm parties, but intimate cookouts give the less physically fit chance to join in the fun. As the fire smolders and the bugs start biting, the whole gang sits around and chews the fat, until the trend-setters leave to change for the evening...