Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gang, Roth...
...just experienced a losing season, his fourth 23-2 loss in as many years to the "Breakfast Table Daily" gang from Cambridge, and the sinking realization that the Colonel's potato salad had come complete with a marching battalion of tiny black ants...
...attacker, is in the form of a long letter from Old American President Joseph McGee Jr. It leaves no nightmare untouched as it warns readers of the dangers of "being mugged, pushed down a flight of stairs by a fleeing thief, or shoved off a curb by a roaming gang of toughs." At a cost of $12 a year, a policyholder injured in a crime of violence can collect up to $5,250 to cover medical expenses. If the insured is killed, Old American will pay his beneficiary...
There was a danger that the reawakened student movement would be strangled as soon as it began to breathe. On June 10 a demonstration of 10,000 students, demanding the release of all remaining student leaders from the prisons, was brutally broken up by a gang of toughs called the halcones. When the protesters reached a main intersection in Mexico City, busloads of halcones, armed with M-1 and M-2 rifles, emptied out into the street and began firing on the demonstrators as the police looked on. At least ten students were shot to death, and more died when...
...Philadelphia, with its one-third black population and the highest incidence of black gang violence in the country, Rizzo's campaign strikes on one level a blatantly racist chord, although on another it appeals to legitimate fears of whites and some blacks as well. His overwhelming strength lies in the white community. Even Longstreth forces predict that up to 25% of the city's Republicans will cross party lines to vote for Rizzo. During the primary, Rizzo did not campaign in the black neighborhoods. He has since altered his strategy only to the point of an occasional stop...