Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Press reports, including interviews with high-ranking law-enforcement officers, admit that there has been an "acceleration" of juvenile delinquency. A recent television program in a series on law enforcement was devoted to the story of a teen-age gang that killed two tellers in a Ukraine bank robbery. Literaturnaya Gazeta not long ago ran a detailed account of an incident reminiscent of a macabre scene from A Clockwork Orange: two teen-agers beat to death four drunken adults in the industrial city of Chelyabinsk...
...heroin addicts, and they are creating increasing troubles. Petty crimes, shoplifting and muggings have been more frequent as addicts try to get money to support their habits. Reports of death from drug overdoses have become staple items in newspapers. The city is even beginning to have New York-style gang wars between rival dope pushers. The Rosse Buurt was recently jolted by a daylight gun battle between members of the local Yellow Mafia and a Surinamese heroin dealer. No one was injured, but police found packets of heroin on each of the three gunmen they managed to catch...
...York. There is a car accident, but the chauffeur refuses to help, since it is after sun down Friday-the start of the Sabbath, when Orthodox Jews do not work-so De Funès must extricate himself all on his own. Meanwhile, near the crash scene a gang of Middle Eastern terrorists chases after one of their political leaders, trying to torture information about the underground out of him. De Funès stumbles on their hideout, hooks up with the leader, is chased by the terrorists, shows up at the airport, switches identities with a couple of Orthodox...
Opening his attack on inflation last week, President Ford came on like a curious mixture of two radio programs from the 1940s: Gang Busters and Fibber McGee and Molly. In the best Gang Busters fashion, he told cheering Congressmen that he considered inflation "public enemy No. 1" and pledged a resolute fight against it. Yet what he disclosed of his arsenal of weaponry for the battle seemed a Fibber McGee closet crowded with familiar ideas that have been tried, or at least noisily advocated, before...
...Wall Street Gang...