Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gang's Demands. In the ruins, Madison police, Army intelligence agents and FBI men found fragments of a Ford van that had been stolen from a university parking lot the week before. Police theorized that the bombers had loaded the van either with dynamite or plastic explosives and left it next to Sterling Hall...
Died. William Hamm Jr., 86, chairman of the Midwest's Hamm Brewing Co., who in 1933 made the headlines when he was kidnaped by the notorious Alvin Karpis-Ma Barker gang and only released after payment of $100,000; in St. Paul, Minn...
Borsalino is a silly Gallic gangster flick that means no harm. It's good enough fun, in a kind of punch-drunk way, what with all its elaborate costumes, its opulent sets, its duke-outs, shootups and gang wars. But in their campy zeal to duplicate the hard-boiled crime genre of the '30s and '40s, the film makers lapse frequently into a kind of hysterical, hell-for-leather hyperbole that gives the movie an air of burlesque gone overboard...
...name originated with the Blackstone Rangers, a gang operating near Blackstone Avenue which merged with other gangs to form a larger group. The P stands for peace...
Since April, Weatherman-type gangs of young men and women have made almost daily hit-and-run attacks throughout Calcutta. They have ambushed three police vehicles, killing one policeman and injuring three. One gang stabbed a schoolteacher to death. A plainclothes cop was chased and killed by a knife-wielding mob. Nine movie houses showing an anti-Chinese film were attacked, their audiences routed. Public buses and trams were firebombed. Naxalites ransacked a printing plant handling a U.S. Government account, and sacked the local Ford Foundation office...