Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...June 24 of this year, there have been 38 gang-related homicides and 316 gang shootings with 398 wounded, most in the city's black South Side. Last Friday, at one violence-ridden project, there were more fatalities-two policemen, walking the streets in a program to improve relations with the community, were gunned down by snipers. Among the black community, there is a growing recognition that the gangs are a cancer within their midst, that they must be stamped out and that no matter what the police and courts try to do, it is the blacks themselves...
Such awareness has been long in coming. For years, the city's black gangs have been allowed to flourish under a protective umbrella of white-liberal and black community support. Despite the formation of a special police gang intelligence unit, organizations like the Black P. Stone Nation (formerly and more famously known as the Blackstone Rangers), the Black Disciples and the Vice Lords increased their memberships into the thousands and engaged in shooting sprees, beatings, extortion and intimidation. But for all that, adult black leaders did not criticize the gangs, visualizing them instead as an organized and potentially constructive...
...machinery repairman who seems older than his 22 years, lives at the Protestant edge of the "peace line." Ball and his wife Maureen, 20, moved into his three-story brick house at No.78 Percy Street after last summer's riots - when it be came available rather suddenly. A gang of Protestant toughs had burst in and given the Catholic family that lived there half an hour to clear...
...last week) 2. The French Lieutenant'sFowles (2) 3. Great Lion of God, Caldwell 4. Deliverance, Dickey (4) 5.Calico Palace, Bristow (5) 6. The Secret Woman, Holt 7. The Lord Won't Mind, Merrick 8. The Crystal Cave, Stewart (7) 9. Losing Battles, Welty (6) 10.The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...
...Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Breslin...