Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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From then until their capture in 1972, Baader and Meinhof led their terrorist gang, the "Red Army Faction," in a series of daring crimes across West Germany: holding up banks, stealing fast, expensive cars and shooting it out with police. Spawned amid the student protests of the 1960s, the gang went underground to carry out a string of "anti-imperialist" crimes. In the spring of 1972 they set off bombs in Frankfurt and Heidelberg that killed four U.S. servicemen. After nearly three years in prison, Baader, Meinhof and two others finally went to trial...
These days, relations are fine between Chevy and his old SN gang. The show's audience has actually grown since Chase's leavetaking. What's more, Chevy's controversial fame may prove to be a burden. "You're always on," he sighs, explaining why he now avoids Hollywood parties. "You keep saying, 'Thank you very much,' when maybe you just want to sit down and look at your sunglasses." Paul Wolmuth
This time the 747-load of fools consists of rich folks being ferried to an art-gallery opening in Palm Beach at the lavish expense of its owner (James Stewart). Also aboard are many of his paintings and a gang of hijackers who gas crew and passengers and slip down below the altitude where radar can track the craft. Then they fly it smack into the ocean. The thing sinks but does not flood, thanks to some watertight compartments Stewart has thoughtfully provided for his artwork. Everyone behaves predictably. Pilot Jack Lemmon is valiant and resourceful, older character people like...
...tumult in Rome concerned the tangled case of Claudia Caputi, 18, victim of a brutal gang rape last August, who has become a feminist heroine. In Italy's male-dominated Mediterranean culture, rape has usually been regarded as a shameful family secret, infrequently reported and rarely prosecuted. In fact, Italian courts often absolved the rapist if the girl agreed to marry him. In recent years the number of reported rapes has been on the decline-partly, experts theorize, as a result of increased sexual freedom among young people. But Rome has recently been shocked by a rash of vicious...
...daughter of a bricklayer in the Abruzzi village of Villalago (pop. 900), Claudia had come to Rome last year to work as an au pair. One sultry summer evening she was out for a walk with a teen-age youth when she was chased down by a gang of about 17 young men who threatened her with a club and raped her. Before she was taken to the hospital, Claudia was able to point out some of her assailants to police. They arrested seven neighborhood toughs, aged 17 to 20, including her companion who had joined in the attack...