Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bombing raid that wrecked and burned their town, Carla and Giulia, cousins in their mid-teens, lost their grandmother in whose house they had lived. Alone and hungry, they turned for help to Carla's boy friend, Tullio, leader of a gang which preyed on the ruins of the town and prepared arms for a future Communist uprising. Tullio installed them in an abandoned brothel, where the three set up house, living off the money Tullio stole and Carla made as a prostitute...
...shot Walter Reuther. But last week, investigating a $600 store burglary, state police picked up the trail of one Carl Bolton, 39. Bolton, for a short time, had been a vice president of a U.A.W. local, for a long time the leader and mastermind of a gang of petty thieves. Police found him in Indiana, arrested him and four members of his gang. One of them, an ex-con named Jack Miller, decided to talk...
After Count Bernadotte was murdered, the government of Israel gave the impression that it would seriously try to break up organized terrorism. It passed a drastic anti-terrorist decree, forced the illegal Irgun into the regular Israeli army and clapped 187 members of the Stern gang, which boasted of killing Bernadotte, into the Jaffa jail. Last week it was quite apparent that the Israeli government's bark was no match for the Stern gang's bite...
Under the indulgent Grau, 100 revolutionary gang murders have passed unpunished since 1944. Prío, who showed his mettle last year by breaking Communist control of Cuban labor, has assured Cubans that he intends to bring in law and administrative order. "The limits of anarchy," he said last week before his inauguration, "have been reached under the present government. I have no intention of beginning mine in the same condition...
...saying that Bernadotte himself was an agent provocateur and had deliberately exposed himself to assassination. Crum declared that when Bernadotte set out on the inspection tour during which he was shot, he "had taken a devious, roundabout route which led him, for no reason whatever, directly through the Stern gang stronghold." (Actually, the Sternists did not control any one part of Jerusalem; their known headquarters were nowhere along Bernadotte's route...