Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quick bit of history: Billy Jack (Laughlin), a Viet Nam veteran and ace of the martial arts, is part Indian, part ambulatory social conscience. He first showed up in Born Losers (1967), a B picture in the motorcycle-gang genre, hit his stride, and the jackpot, in Billy Jack. That picture grossed over $30 million. Kids responded to its softheaded social preachments while turning on to its shootouts and hand-to-hand combats...
When police seized three top leaders .and more than 20 alleged followers of the celebrated Baader-Meinhof gang in the summer of 1972, many West Germans felt a sense of relief. During a two-year reign of anarchist-inspired violence, the group, which styled itself the "Red Army Faction," was accused of dozens of bombings, bank robberies and cops-and-robbers shootouts. Since then, all of the defendants have remained locked up awaiting trial, but the authorities fear that the group's sympathizers have reorganized for another outbreak of terror...
Tension has been building ever since three members of the gang-Ulrike Meinhof, 40, a former journalist, Hans Jurgen Baecker, 36, a garage mechanic, and Horst Mahler, 39, a lawyer who rose to fame by defending student demonstrators-went on trial in September on charges of having helped Ringleader Andreas Baader escape from a previous imprisonment in 1970 (he was recaptured in 1972). As the trial began, 17 Baader-Meinhof prisoners across the country went on hunger strikes to protest their incarceration in solitary confinement. Their lawyers charged that they were held for months in "sensory-deprivation" cubicles lacking light...
...civilians, and their prime targets are athletes (Munich), tourists (Lod, Athens, Rome), women and children (school buses, Qiryat Shemona, Ma'alot, Bet She'an). Nobody, including the U.N., can change the basic fact that by its avowed goal and its tactics, the P.L.O. is a murderers' gang...
...along with sundry side events. Since the 3rd people have been pouring into this rural western New York state complex, for a race that will last an hour and a half. According to three veteran race fans camped next to us in the infield: "This race is one big gang bang; 60 per cent of the people don't give a damn about the race...