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Word: ganges (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...nationwide survey showed that 23% of Mexican Americans had less than five years of schooling, compared with 3.6% for the rest of the population. The school dropout rate among chicanos is high (one informed estimate: 42%), and many of those who leave school enroll elsewhere-in youth gangs. An estimated 13,000 young Hispanics belong to such gangs in Los Angeles County alone. Last year there were 69 gang killings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: LOS ANGELES | 10/16/1978 | See Source »

...last of the Oakland A's Moustache Gang, Billy North, followed with a high chop over Graig Nettles's head at third. Roy White fielded the ball cleanly in left, but North simply beat his weak throw to second as two runs scored. Lee Lacy then drove home the tenth Dodger run with a single to left...

Author: By David A. Wilson, | Title: Round One Belongs to the Dodgers, 11-5 | 10/11/1978 | See Source »

...London, Scotland Yard detectives nabbed Astrid Proll, 31, wanted for taking part in the 1970 attack that freed Terrorist Andreas Baader. Scheduled to stand trial on attempted murder and bank robbery charges with others in the Baader-Meinhof gang, Proll had been released from custody for medical reasons and had jumped bail. When arrested, she was working at a government-sponsored vocational training school...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TERRORISTS: Closing In on an Elusive Enemy | 10/9/1978 | See Source »

...Minutemen marched 73 yards on 14 plays over a seven-minute span, but the Harvard defense quashed the rallying visitors by gang-tackling halfback Cliff Pedrow on a fourth-and-two at the Harvard...

Author: By John Donley, | Title: Crimson Gridders Zap Minutemen, 10-0 | 10/2/1978 | See Source »

...former state rep. pointed out that the discussion sounded like a meeting of an organized crime syndicate the morning after a gang war. "Who's left?' we ask. "Who's going to move into the territory...

Author: By H. BRYCE Davis, | Title: The Morning After | 9/25/1978 | See Source »

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