Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...kidnaping that would rock the nation. Their intended victim: Emperor Hirohito's youngest daughter, the former Princess Suga. She was to be held for $138,888, the biggest ransom in Japanese history. Disguised as a meter reader, one plotter entered and cased the princess' house. The gang moved in for the snatch three times, only to have something go awry. Before they could make a fourth try, the police were tipped off and collared the gang, building an airtight case with full confessions. Yet last spring the accused were convicted only of trespassing and illegal possession of weapons...
...savage backlands violence that began in 1948 as a feud between the country's Liberals and Conservatives. But catching Sure Shot is no sure thing. Reared in poverty and squalor, he drifted into a Communist guerrilla band in the early 1950s. By 1960 he had his own gang, and moved his family and followers onto a 10,000-acre hacienda near the foot of snow-topped Mount Huila-after killing the hacienda's owner. From his new home Tiro Fijo began taking over all neighboring haciendas, establishing Communist cells throughout the area, indoctrinating peasants, levying a monthly head...
...really cannot imagine how pleasant it is for an Indonesia-born Dutchman to read such rare names as Kambing Masak Bugis and Ajam Pang-gang-two of the many, many delicious foods of Indonesia...
...hopping mad, pulled a gun on Paulie and was rewarded for his temerity with a beating that put him in the hospital for a month. It was enough to turn Harry the Ox into Harry the Fink: he provided the police with sufficient evidence against Muller and the Black Gang to bring them to trial. Last week a motley audience of shills, pimps, whores, strippers and bullyboys gathered in Hamburg's dingy criminal court to hear sentence pronounced on the Black Gang. Found guilty on 16 counts ranging from assault and battery to extortion, Paulie Muller was sentenced...
...lonely spinster who sits next to a safe full of top secrets, dreaming about love, Monte Carlo and a yellow two-seater sportscar. Their romance, though, consists mainly of weekends in London, and the extent of their moral debauchery is going to a music hall to applaud the Crazy Gang. The film makers warn at the end that "there may be a spy in this very theater, in the very row where you're sitting." Such drab middle-class doings as this film shows may well prod enemy agents into a more exciting line of work...