Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Manhattan. Over the years, his family frequently made a pilgrimage to watch the U.S. Open tennis tournament in Queens. En route to dinner at Tavern on the Green, a popular tourist attraction, the family was attacked by a group of eight black and Hispanic youths. After one of the gang cut open his father's pocket to get at his money and punched his mother in the face, Brian jumped to his parents' defense. He was stabbed with a four-inch butterfly knife and died 40 minutes later at St. Vincent's Hospital...
...shock of Watkins' death was intensified by the venality of its alleged motive. According to police, the suspects are members of F.T.S. (an abbreviated obscenity), a Queens youth gang that requires its members to commit a mugging as an initiation rite. They were reportedly trying to raise cash to finance an evening of frolicking at Roseland, a nearby dance hall, where six suspects were arrested. Two others were rounded up later...
...decade ago, New York City subway cars were the primary target for industrious miscreants who, armed with marker pens and aerosol paint cans, scribbled and sprayed themselves into a major problem. City officials elsewhere in the country smugly assumed that gang graffiti were a blight limited largely to the Big Apple...
...more. The stylized smears born in the South Bronx have spread across the ) country, covering buildings, bridges and highways in every urban center. From Philadelphia to Santa Barbara, Calif., the annual costs of cleaning up after the underground artists are soaring into the billions. The nationwide proliferation of juvenile gangs has added to graffiti problems, but most of the damage is done by a new subculture of wandering spray-can artists who see themselves as itinerant self-expressionists. "Gang-related graffiti mark turf," says ethnographic researcher Devon Brewer of the University of California at Irvine. "But hip-hop graffiti...
...Trump spokeswoman calls this speculation "preposterous." Maybe so, but Housewreckers Local 95 was identified in a 1987 government report as being controlled by the Genovese gang. In 1984 the union's three highest officials were convicted of racketeering in an unrelated case...