Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...though Karl-Heinz Ruhland, 33, had confessed to bank robbery, car theft, breaking into city halls and stealing passports. Authorities feared, however, that he might be rubbed out by his former associates before he could testify-and he had played roughly the role of C.W. Moss in the notorious gang of anarchist cutthroats organized by West Germany's Bonnie und Clyde...
...slim, tough-faced divorcee who was once the editor of the leftist monthly magazine Konkret. "Clyde" is Andreas Baader, 28, a personable art-school dropout, Lothario of sorts, and sometime student revolutionary. Accompanied by a fluctuating number of associates (as many as 23 at times), the Baader-Meinhof gang during the past two years has pulled a string of bank robberies and car thefts, and has had shootouts with police in half a dozen cities. The toll so far: one policeman killed and another seriously injured, two gang members killed...
Masked Figures. The origins of the gang go back to the student riots that swept West Germany and France in 1968. Then a member of "Red" Rudi Dutschke's S.D.S., Baader was caught throwing bombs into two Frankfurt department stores, causing nearly $700,000 in damages. Meinhof interviewed him in jail for Konkret and wrote approvingly of his "progressive" act. Two years later, Baader received permission from prison authorities to travel under guard to a Berlin library to do research. There Meinhof was seated at a table, pretending to read. Suddenly, two masked figures burst into the room, overpowered...
...another travesty of history, Bathsheba is a groupie follower of Little David, a rock singer and harpist. "Play the harp, Little David!" Bathsheba shrieks. "Play on that harp, honey!" Eventually David's prowess with women arouses the ire of Goliath, leader of a motorcycle gang called the Philistines. "Watch out, David!" Bathsheba yells. "You'd better watch out! He runnin' up behind you! He got a club...
...Gang, Roth...