Word: ganging
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some programs aim to break down racial and ethnic barriers. Inner-City Outreach summer integrates youths from the Franklin Field and Franklin Hill housing projects, with the hope of ending the community's racial--and gang-oriented--factionalism...
...discipline. He did not so much change, from the days of his raw, painful childhood, as add layers, coats of polish that only occasionally peeled. One day he was making a television commercial in Oakland, California, and fell into his first language, the street-corner argot of his gang years. Furious with himself, he stopped the shooting, regrouped and then said he wanted to do it again. The second try went perfectly. "That's what happens when I spend too much time with my boys," he said. "I forget how to talk white...
...three years of fighting have been civilians. An additional 4 million have become refugees, most of them driven from their homes in pogroms of "ethnic cleansing." Survivors tell of concentration camps, brutal guards, starvation rations, killing grounds, mass graves. They remember a sadist called the Butcher, the killer gang known as the Jokers. They have witnessed summary executions, decapitations, human beings being thrown on bonfires. Some still hear the moans of raped women, the shrieks of terrified children, the howls of men under torture...
...office, took one guard hostage, tied up 15 others. They then unlocked the cells of six prisoners, including Felice Maniero, an alleged Mafia boss, and his lieutenant, Sergio Baron, both on trial for drug trafficking and armed robbery. Escaping in two cars through an electronically controlled security gate, the gang dropped off its hostage -- then vanished. Said one Paduan: "They made monkeys out of the police, the prison guards, everyone...
...this year's team was the consummate "hard-luck gang;" it lost a total of eight games all season, and, incredibly, all eight were decided by one goal...