Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...violence at Malmo erupted when a gang of youths wheeled up to the apartment buildings, picked a few fights with young gypsies, and wound up kicking in the door of an elderly couple. Later, a 70-car caravan of hooligans headed toward the area, only to meet a cordon of police armed for a riot. Brandishing clubs and bicycle chains, the youths battled police for an hour...
...skilled but emotionally insecure Hamburg writer; Andreas Baader was a pampered Mama's boy. Together, this unlikely couple, she 34 and he 25 when they first teamed up to do violence, became leaders of Western Europe's bloodiest terrorist outfit, dubbed by journalists the Baader-Meinhof gang...
Even at its zenith in the early 1970s, the Baader-Meinhof gang never numbered more than about 25. Yet they frightened West Germany into a state of paranoia. Financing operations through frequent bank robberies, the gang set up bomb factories and, through their contacts with international terrorist groups, bought arsenals of weapons and ammunition. Suitably armed, the German terrorists embarked on a killing and bombing spree. They vented their rage on "consumer capitalism" by placing bombs in Frankfurt department stores. They struck at the hated Ami (unflattering German slang for "American") by setting bombs in U.S. Army headquarters in Heidelberg...
...while, Meinhof cranked out ideological justifications for the mayhem. For those with memories of the Third Reich, the incidents and propaganda had a chilling familiarity. Substantial segments of the European left began to praise the gang's actions as justified retaliations against the excesses of capitalism. The praise increased the gang's arrogance-and may have contributed to its fatal carelessness. Once the West German federal police set up special squads to cope with the terrorists. they found their quarries easy prey. In 1972 Baader blundered into police hands by racing up to a clandestine bomb factory...
...Hsinhua communique disclosed, the 160-member Central Committee met secretly in Peking from July 16 to July 21. Its purpose: to consider the rehabilitation of Teng and the final debasement of Chiang Ch'ing and her gang. While the committee was casting its vote, visitors to an exhibition in Peking commemorating Chou En-lai noted that there were 24 photographs of Teng standing beside the man he had hoped to succeed as Premier...