Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...maroon sedan through the underbrush, his headlights picked out two giant vans. Suddenly there was a roar of boat engines and rifle fire. Pinned down, Brack held off the attackers until help came. Two shrimp boats packed with pot ran aground in the confusion. Surrounded in the thicket, a gang of eleven men was captured, along with $14 million in grass...
...National People's Congress, the body that theoretically serves as China's parliament, came courtesy of the all-powerful Communist Party Central Committee. The point the Central Committee wished to drive home: 18 months after Mao's death and the subsequent arrest of the radical Gang of Four. China's leadership has consolidated, and seeks, under "the great banner of Chairman Mao," to reverse the course Mao set in the chaotic Cultural Revolution. Instead of the old emphasis on "political purity" and total equality between workers and officials, the major theme of the eight-day congress...
Even so, official court notices posted last week proclaimed the execution of "counterrevolutionary elements" in Hangchow, and the campaign continues against associates of the Gang of Four. Nor has there been any softening of the regime's insistence that the U.S. abandon Taiwan (the issue is low on the Carter Administration's agenda while Congress considers the Panama Canal treaties and prepares for SALT). But U.S. diplomats took it as no more than a standard repetition of China's policy when Chairman Hua last week told the congress that the army "must make all the preparations necessary...
Almost all the people who went to college from about 1965 through 1972, even the tamest ones, were deeply and permanently affected by the tumult of those wild and grim times. The so-called '60s kids clearly constitute a group apart, markedly different from the gang that graduated in the 1950s and early 1960s, who celebrated football, proms and exclusive fraternities, and somewhat different from the more conventional, career-directed students of today. Yet it was not difficult for corporations to recruit the '60s kids. As products of the postwar baby boom, they faced stiff competition for places...
They popped through their first seven field-goal attempts and 11 of their first 13 to open up an 11-point gap before Frank McLaughlin's gang could even unholster their six-shooters...