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Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pedro Antonio Marin, 34, alias "Tiro Fijo" (Sure Shot), a killer responsible for some 200 murders. In a drive to stamp out the senseless violence that has torn the country's backlands for almost two decades, an army regiment last May went after the bandit and his gang, but Tiro Fijo escaped. Now he is back in business, more vicious than ever and proclaiming himself a Castro-style guerrilla...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Colombia: Return of Sure Shot | 4/9/1965 | See Source »

Last week it was back - in real life. The story was told by California Attorney General Thomas C. Lynch, in a shocking report on a motorcycle gang called Hell's Angels...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The Wilder Ones | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

...rape case that ignited Lynch's investigation. Last fall, two teen-age girls were taken forcibly from their dates and raped by several members of the gang. From 104 California sheriffs, district attorneys and chiefs of police, Lynch amassed a mountain of evidence about Hell's Angels, the thrust of which shows that the group has more than lived up to its sinister moniker...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California: The Wilder Ones | 3/26/1965 | See Source »

When he answered his office phone one Friday last month, Coates was not surprised to hear a husky female voice announce that Manuel Ruiz, one of a suspected gang which had relieved an armored truck of $110,000, wanted to surrender. Coates accepted the offer. "Dad's playing Dick Tracy again," quipped one of his sons. Coates appeared at the appointed hour on a lonely Los Angeles street corner. "I always do it, and I'm always scared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Underdogs' Favorite | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

...money to a man who may have already beat them out of $40,000," says Coates. But a good reporter is not easily put off a juicy crime story. Last week Coates was doggedly tracking down a lead to Ruiz' brother Henry, an alleged member of the holdup gang. He has high hopes of engineering still one more sentimental surrender...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Reporters: The Underdogs' Favorite | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

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