Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Sikkim's benign and enlightened King Palden Thondup Namgyal was crowned eight years ago in Gang-tok, he offered this pledge for himself and his queen, former New York Debutante Hope Cooke: "Together may we make Sikkim a paradise on earth." Today, Indian troops patrol his capital and his dreams of paradise look dark...
...opponents. Now the arrests are increasing (at least 1,000 in the past three months). Part of the new crackdown is a heavy emphasis ensuring that suspected subversives never cause trouble again. The routine called "disarticulation," a word that used in Brazil to mean the "breaking up of a gang." A student in Sao Paulo was rather severely disarticulated this month, for example, after apparently reneging on a promise to finger one of his friends. Before springing the trap, he supposedly went to a bar and ordered a beer, then suddenly dashed into the street to elude his police monitors...
Their deaths last December were violent evidence of a serious new form of prison unrest. They did not die in an ordinary penitentiary riot, but in a full-scale street-gang rumble, transported virtually intact from the Chicago slums into the prison. Gang activity now plagues penal systems not only in Illinois but in California, New Jersey and New York, among others. Indeed, nearly every prison that draws inmates from large urban areas these days must deal with gangs operating behind bars...
...Pontiac the problem is especially acute. Two years ago, police began a crackdown on such Chicago gang "nations" as the Black P. Stones, Black Disciples and Vice Lords. Today, there are probably as many members inside Pontiac as on the streets. After the fatal rumble, most prisoners were kept "on deadlock"−that is, in their cells all day as well as all night. Only this month were the final 200 inmates released from deadlock. With the return to comparative calm, TIME Correspondent Joseph Boyce was admitted to Pontiac and talked with inmate leaders about the killings and what might...
...most. She lets her heat build, but hits ground before it peaks: "So there's my two bits, take it...or leave it." It's a no bullshit no pretensions tone. She is like a muckraker fighting for the rights of movie lovers, a one-time member of "the gang" who pounces on the hint of an excuse to blast the Big Wheels and demagogues and hooligans of movie-making. The voice belongs to someone who is simply fed up with slickness and sellouts, someone who wants to make sure that we know enough to ask for more from movies...