Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Once the south side of Williamsburg was populated by upwardly mobile immigrant Jews from Europe. When they moved elsewhere, progressively poorer blacks and Hispanics took their places. A month ago, members of the Love Brothers, a Hispanic gang, began terrorizing the 100 or so residents of a six-story building on South Fourth Street, tearing out the building's pipes, smashing windows and furnishings and peddling whatever could be moved. They got $35 a stove, $25 a refrigerator, $10 a sink, $3 a steam radiator. By week's end the building was a cannibalized hulk, and all the tenants were...
...inquiry into the deaths of Andreas Baader, founder of the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang, and gang members Gudrun Enselin and Jean Carl Raspe continues in Stuttgart, Germany, this week West German federal police told The New York Times they believe terrorists planted the bomb which shattered a Rhineland village courthouse on Monday...
Police are now searching in Denmark for members of an offshoot of the Baader-Meinhof gang called the Red Army Faction, a West Germany-based group that claimed responsibility for the abduction and murder of West German industrialist Hans Martin Schleyer. Police said they believe the Red Army Faction is also responsible for the explosion...
Security experts agree and have warned Schmidt to expect what they call a "spontaneous reaction for the freedom of other jailed terrorists." Even though the Baader-Meinhof gang has been largely destroyed, an estimated 120 hard-core terrorists remain at large in Germany; many of them claim affiliation with the Red Army Faction, the country's most dangerous guerrilla group. An additional 1,200 to 5,000 committed radicals provide them with food, money and safe houses, and occasionally join in acts of violence. The terrorists and their sympathizers "are standing, rifle by foot, waiting to go into action," says...
...accused terrorists and their lawyers have disrupted court proceedings and have even planned new acts of terror from inside their prison cells. Some 70 radical lawyers are suspected of aiding terrorists. Most celebrated may be Klaus Croissant, 47, Baader's attorney, who is believed to have carried messages from gang members inside prison to those outside. Arrested last July, Croissant jumped bail and fled to France, where, after nearly three months underground, he was caught by police in late September. He now faces possible extradition to West Germany...