Word: ganges
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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QUEZON CITY: Fear and Folly Filipinos are bemused by a series of police blunders that allowed a gang of bandits to escape. Fifteen gunmen drove up to a bank and opened fire with assault rifles, pistols and grenade launchers, killing three guards. The robbers emerged from the vault with $200,000 and greeted arriving police with a fusillade that wounded five people, including a policeman. The police pursued the fleeing robbers, but soon ran out of ammunition. A squad car broke down. Officers mistook a passing van for a getaway car and fired on it; inside was a police colonel...
...about the strength of the Soviet military was carefully nurtured by the West in order to build up its own military-industrial might. The debacle the Russians suffered at the hands of the Chechens has brought this lie to the fore. Jaffer Khoonjee Jidda, Saudi Arabia Yeltsin and his gang of war psychotics are reviving Stalin's era of mass genocides and forced relocation. The Chechnya invasion will certainly provoke more revolts by local and neighboring armies while
There he met other students, among them a gang of mischief-making teenagers from Brooklyn and the Bronx who called themselves the Masters of Destruction. Although Phiber claims he never joined MOD, he was happy to share his knowledge with them. Under his tutelage, they learned how to seize control of a telephone account and alter services at will. One trick: turning a rival's home telephone into a pay phone, so that whenever his parents tried to dial a number an operator would interrupt to say, "Please deposit 25 cents...
...Arkansas teacher's aide was convicted of assault late Thursday and sentenced to 90 days in jail for encouraging a gang of her fifth graders last month to pummel a boy who was disturbing the class. Pupils said the aide, Amanda Howard of Little Rock, laughed while up to 10 students beat up 11-year-old Eugene Pitts, even -- according to one student -- saying "Everybody kick his butt." The incident came to light after a local hospital that treated Eugene for nose and rib injuries reported it. The school district had never told police. Howard, who was freed on bond...
After several gang members stormed a Baptist church in Mattapan, Solo, a drug dealer, found himself acting as a field advisor to area Baptist ministers seeking to case the conflict between the church and the community...