Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Gangs around the country are joining forces for a good cause: personal survival. On April 29 a California community group called Hands Across Watts is holding a day-long "Gangs United for Peace Town Hall Summit," at which leaders from the Crips, the Bloods and other gangs will talk about ways to end inner-city violence. Also starting on April 29, the Ohio-based Council for Urban Peace and Justice will hold a four-day-long conference in Kansas City, Missouri, that is expected to draw more than 100 former and current gang members from 20 cities. The highlight...
...somewhat emotional when I hear about women who are gang-raped in Bosnia," said Dominique Padurano '93, the leader of the new group. "I find it hard not to get involved...
...enclaves. Its center cannot hold because the city doesn't have one. The land without limits keeps running into dead ends: not enough money for schools, housing for newcomers, jobs for the working class, room to move. The laboratory of change produces the latest in urban ills: crack cocaine, gang culture, police brutality, civic indifference, a spectacular gap between rich and poor. Increasingly, the rest of America hopes the latest in L.A. trends will stay right where they started...
...trial this summer of three black men charged with assaulting white truck driver Reginald Denny, will determine just how much anger is pent up in the city's poor districts. In the well-off neighborhoods, the fear of new riots rose on an updraft of rumor. This time the gangs would not be content to bounce the rubble in their own neighborhoods but would descend instead on the suburbs. On a radio call-in show, a young gang member said he plans to raid the "three Bs," meaning the rich domains of Brentwood, Bel-Air and Beverly Hills. One rumor...
...delicate truce prevails among black gangs, including some affiliated with the Crips and the Bloods, who conduct much of the city's drug business. Arranged among the gangs themselves and nurtured by community groups, the truce is meant to curb the turf wars that cut down members and bystanders alike. Yet gang killings hit a record high last year, accounting for 430 of the city's 1,100 murders, in part because efforts to extend the truce to the Latino gangs of the city's east side have failed. The rising body count is due partly to the popularity...