Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Internal struggles for power in China during the '60s and '70s have resulted in the "equivalent of three Watergates," Fairbank said, referring to the fall of Liu Shao-chi (1967), Lin Piao (1971), and the so-called Gang of Four...
...York's Central Park last week. These white teenagers, armed with baseball bats, went on a depraved spree one afternoon, attacking passersby and savagely beating them, leaving five men hospitalized with skull fractures. Curiously enough, robbery was not the motive: no one knows what they were after, and the gang still has not been apprehended. Their little jaunt is not the first act of seemingly senseless violence, urban or otherwise, and it will not be the last, but it is nonetheless notable for its Clockwork Orange style of viciousness. Mugging is one thing, but splitting heads for the hell...
...boatloads of hungry and thirsty Vietnamese, who then set sail again to virtually certain death at sea. Last week the arrest of six Thai policemen pointed to the widespread mistreatment of the 2,000 boat people who have taken refuge in Thailand. The policemen were charged with looting and gang-raping about 30 Vietnamese in a fishing boat outside the coastal town of Nakhon Si Thammarat last month...
...Beach-the Most Beautiful Girl in the World. The star of ABC's sexcom Three's Company plays a singer whose records don't sell. To learn why not, she hangs out on the sand with the high school crowd and soon becomes one of the gang. Surfs up. Water's right. Beach Blanket Bingo, anyone...
Other terrorists, however, carried on their random strikes. Near Milan a masked gang announcing itself as Red Brigades forced its way into the Italian subsidiary of Honeywell Corp. and set fire to a storehouse, destroying $1.1 million in electronic equipment. That attack followed a "kneecapping" (the technique developed by the I.R. A. in Ireland of shooting at the legs) of an Italian executive of the Milan branch of Chemical Bank of New York. The violence has caused some members of the international business community to think seriously about security. Said one Western diplomat in Rome: "I know more than...