Word: gangly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...suburbs, Minister of Police James Kruger invoked a section of the country's Riotous Assemblies Act that forbids all outdoor gatherings without official permission. By Week's end blacks−angered by the mindless vandalism−turned on the rioters. Residents of one township beat off a gang that tried to wreck a beer hall...
Nighttime Sounds. The Prime Minister, announcing the state of emergency, also gave a vivid example of the kind of violence he intended to stop. On the night of May 19, Manley recalled, in what has become known as the "Orange Street Massacre," a gang seeking vengeance for the stabbing of one of its members set fire to a tenement house. With gunfire the gang held firemen at bay and the occupants inside the burning building. Eight children and three adults died in the fire...
...biggest draw among the street entertainers, there are plenty of others. Harvard Square is a living testament to the fact that the '60s are not quite behind us. While ex-flower children do not exactly abound, they are not difficult to find. Most depressing of all are the gang of hari krishna people who hang out in front of The Coop. All together now--ohmmmmmmm...
...suicide was the latest turn in the longest, most sensational terrorist trial that West Germany has known. The daughter of a museum director and once a prominent left-wing journalist, Meinhof, 41, already stood convicted of attempted murder in a 1970 prison raid that freed the gang's other namesake, Arsonist Andreas Baader, and began their paramilitary spree. One year ago she, Baader, now 33, and two other gang members-Jan-Carl Raspe, 31, and Gudrun Ensslin, 33-went on trial for a list of charges that included five counts of murder and 54 of attempted murder. Other Baader...
...Louis parish in Miami offers a Mass that uses young people in adult capacities-reading the Epistle and Gospel, acting as ushers, leading the music. In East Los Angeles, priests from Our Lady of Solitude parish celebrate Mass in the area's housing projects for members of barrio gangs who are fearful of crossing another gang's turf to get to church. And not very far away, in Orange County, Father Don Duplessis conducts home Masses once a month for a group of singles who call themselves the Orange County Catholic Alumni Club. "Here...