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Ramstein, West Germany, Aug. 31. Two bombs were detonated in front of U.S. Air Force headquarters, causing extensive damage and injuring 20 people, 18 of them American soldiers. The Red Army Faction, once known as the Baader-Meinhof gang, claimed responsibility for the strike against "imperialism." Next day at Wiesbaden, several cars at an estate for U.S. servicemen were torched...
Franny. The eldest Berry daughter, who has inherited her mother's fudge-detector. Early on, for example, she perceives that timid Brother John is deeply in love with her. The unorthodox resolution of this passion is postponed many years because of Franny's reaction to being gang-raped by preppies. But honesty, blood ties and spunk prevail. She is avenged and finds happiness as a famous actress and wife of an ex-professional football player...
...mile west, six lanes of traffic move in caravan, a rolling cacophony of full-blast stereos rising above a cross-lane exchange of insults, come-ons and general greetings. Along the sidewalk-the famous chocolate terrazzo sidewalk embedded with bronze-edged stars framing the names of superstars-gang members defiantly stake out their turf. There are police on horseback, on motorcycles, on foot, in plainclothes. Knots of bewildered tourists, looking for Tinseltown, realize they have wandered into a weekend war zone...
...predominantly Hispanic, and they follow, on wheels, the tradition of the paseo. In a motorized version of that mating dance, boys and girls now drive who would once have walked in opposing circles around a village square eyeing each other, flirting and showing off. All innocent fun, except that gangs have followed the cruisers. Nearly 350 gangs plague Los Angeles. They have 20,000 to 30,000 members between the ages of twelve and 22. Sixty percent of the violent street crime in Los Angeles County is youth crime. The incidence is rising fast near Hollywood Boulevard, where there have...
...power of the gods, who were invented to officiate at melodramas. Oaths should be sparingly used and specifically targeted. Their imposing solemnity can shade without warning into the preposterous, into peeled grapes on pledge night, a witch doctoring oogly-boogly like the oath that Tom Sawyer's gang swore in the cave...