Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...guard, Wang strode into Mme. Mao's sumptuous villa in the Forbidden City - and promptly arrested her. A few hours before, he had taken into custody Party Vice Chairman Wang Hung-wen and two other Politburo figures - the other three members, along with Mme. Mao, of the celebrated Gang of Four...
...million-member party - and thus the nation itself. Along the way Wang also got a personal encomium from Chairman Hua, who praised the immense internal-security apparatus headed by Wang - singling out its work in keeping "China and its leadership" from falling into the hands of the Gang of Four...
...boys in my old gang...
...known as Roter Morgen (Red Morning). The caller threatened more executions unless "political prisoners" held by the "exploiting class" were freed. Police scarcely needed to be told that radicals were responsible. So many killings have been carried out by terrorist organizations spawned from West Germany's Baader-Meinhof gang -17 since 1969-that the file on these radicals has been computerized...
Within a year most of the gang were rounded up. Andreas Baader is serving a life term in a West German prison. Ulrike Meinhof hanged herself in her cell with a noose fashioned from a torn sheet...