Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...gasoline murder of Wagler on October 2 was a vicious, senseless act, but when police discovered Barba's body near the predominantly black Columbia Point housing project the following day, newspapers jumped the gun in assuming it was another "roving gang" slaying...
...called stoning of Barba may or may not have occurred as eyewitnesses reported--a gang of black youths was seen throwing rocks near Barba shortly before his death--but it has been clear since the night of Barba's death, when the autopsy was released, that he died of stab wounds. Two youths were arrested and charged for robbery and murder on the following day. Yet, eager to carry the story of Boston's second "white murdered by gang of blacks," The Boston Globe, The Herald-American, The New York Times, The New York Daily News and other national newspapers...
PERHAPS ONE OF the most curious parts of the week's news coverage was the media's failure to play up the brutal attack of a black schoolgirl by a gang of white youths wielding baseball bats and rubber hoses. The failure to adequately report this and several other incidents involving white attackers brought charges of racist reporting. The Progressive Labor Party dramatized their notion of a "conspiracy to stir up racial violence" by taking over The Boston Globe's advertising office and demanding that the Globe print a PLP statement denouncing the coverage...
...horrible things to ever happen in our area." Nevertheless, the tension soon found a fresh point at Andrew Square in a declining white neighborhood and near the notoriously ill-planned and ill-sited black housing project of Columbia Point. After fending off an attack by white youths, a black gang armed with clubs and knives collected around a Columbia Point school, forcing jittery authorities to close it. As a result, large groups of idle black teenagers were soon wandering the area, and in quick succession they claimed three white victims. Two of them were stabbed and robbed, and Ludivico Barba...
...when the Columbia offense did manage to run some sort of attack, the Crimson D, having perfected the arts of team pursuit and gang tackling, thwarted every thrust the Lions attempted...