Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With the purge of the "gang of four" in 1976, the military returned to the center of politics, and public opinion began to emerge as an "institutional force," Terrill said. "There was a snapping of certain rhetorical myths and a concretization of wishes for a better standard of living...
...week's end the Red Brigades, Italy's most infamous terrorist gang (see box), produced a Polaroid photograph of the captured Moro and a handbill warning that he would be subjected to a "people's trial." The typewritten flyer, emblazoned with the awkward five-pointed Red Brigades star, was sent mysteriously to Rome's daily Il Messaggero and left in a phone booth near the RAI state-run TV headquarters. It did not otherwise state any specific demands for Moro's release, but said further communiques would follow. Nonetheless, there was a growing belief that...
...with murder, 13 with attempted homicide, 55 with kidnaping, 30 with robbery, a few with lesser offenses. Little is known about the Brigades, but some brigatisti, it is certain, have been schooled at the same Palestinian guerrilla camps that trained members of West Germany's murderous Baader-Meinhof gang...
...result of the leak, one of the largest Mafia gatherings since the celebrated Apalachin, N.Y., meeting in 1957 took place on Feb. 18 and 19 in Miami. Assembling on the beach near the Fontainebleau Hotel and in a closed restaurant, at least a score of top Mafiosi discussed gang affairs, including ways to blunt the FBI probe. In addition to Scotto, the investigation is chiefly aimed at two other powerful I.L. A. officials, George Barone and William Boyle, both of Miami...
...skins" had claimed the floor earlier by knocking off football coach Al Bruno's noontime gang. Bruno, the grid team's offensive coordinator, played on the University of Kentucky's NCAA championship team of 1948-49. He and several other Harvard coaches dominate center-court daily from noon until 1 p.m. Using the running hook and the one-hand shot to counter modern techniques, Coach Bruno constantly astounds his younger opponents...