Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...recent months gang members have blazed a trail of terror. They accosted one youth on the street, ordered him to run, then shot him in the buttocks for no reason. They boarded buses and relieved all passengers of their valuables. They branched out to the Edsel Ford and the Lodge freeways, descending on stalled cars like army ants to rob, beat and rape terrified motorists. They devised a game called "Russian," in which one punk would knock on the door of a home while his confederates hid in the bushes; when the door opened, the whole mob would storm...
...crowning horror occurred at a Cobo Hall rock concert in downtown Detroit in mid-August. Some 125 black youths, apparently acting in unison, beat and robbed scores of patrons and gang-raped one woman. For a full hour, undermanned police outside the hall refused to intervene-on the incredible grounds that Cobo Hall had promised to provide its own security. When they finally did bestir themselves, they arrested 47 hoodlums; all have been released...
...that, the outraged citizenry could no longer be ignored. Though the city was not actually in flames, Mayor Young stoically cut short his vacation. Having laid off 1,000 policemen in July because of a fiscal squeeze, he rehired 675 of them and immediately assigned 200 to gang-busting patrols. The city council also ordered the curfew, which curtailed the gangs' activities, at least for the moment. Aside from ordering a tightening of procedures, however, there was not much that Young could do about Detroit's overburdened and overly lenient juvenile-court system, whose facilities are so inadequate...
...three taxis left to her by her husband. One cab was hijacked and burned out by black youths at the beginning of the Soweto disturbances in June. Last week, fearful of breaking the boycott, she kept her remaining taxis at home. But at midweek a youth, fleeing a Zulu gang, ran through the garden of her home. The enraged Zulus, thinking she had given him refuge, kicked down her front door, smashed her furniture and windows, and then hacked and smashed her two cabs parked outside. "This is the end," she said. "Between the Zulu mobs, the students, the tsotsis...
...them "touts" (informers). "We will not be deterred by the hysterics of the peace-at-any-price brigade," huffed one IRA officer. The Protestant Telegraph, the Rev. Ian Paisley's fanatically Loyalist newspaper, also denounced the women's peace movement as "spurious" and "priest-inspired." After a gang of youngsters tried to set fire to her house, Williams sent her two children into hiding with friends...