Word: gangly
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...Durban township last week, thousands of Indians fled as gangs of young blacks ransacked and burned shops and houses. In Umlazi township, police used tear gas and rubber bullets against mobs of rampaging youths who burned shops and schools. In KwaMashu, a gang attacked the home of a black policeman and set it ablaze. To frightened Indians, the scene was all too reminiscent of the riots of 1949, when 142 Indians lost their lives in clashes with Zulus...
...R.A.F. is the successor to the Baader-Meinhof gang, which terrorized West Germany in the 1970s with a series of politically inspired murders, kidnapings and armed robberies. Only last month West German Federal Prosecutor Kurt Rebmann called the R.A.F. "the most dangerous organization in West Germany." He described its potential for terror as "un-diminished and acute." West German authorities say that since last December the group and allied gangs have carried out 156 bombing and arson attacks...
...last weekend, he needed 20 more hits before he would reach 4,191, return to 1928 and rendezvous with the roughest competitor in baseball's history, Tyrus Raymond Cobb. Somehow Rose overshot his true generation, and has had to hustle almost a quarter of a century to rejoin a gang of bronze men just like him. "Wagner, Speaker, Musial, Aaron--Ty Cobb." He rattles off the last of the stops he has been hurrying past for years. "Ty Cobb," he says with, wonder. Rose's ten-month-old son is named Tyler only because Carol, his second wife, would...
...citizen of Italy, I apologize for the behavior of my government. It has betrayed the simplest and most necessary principles of human living: justice and loyalty. Italy should have asked that Egypt immediately hand Terrorist Abul Abbas and his criminal gang over to us. Our government's readiness to accept the most infamous conditions forced the U.S. to intervene in the name of humanity and in order to ensure justice. Our country nonetheless managed to complete the betrayal by helping Abbas to escape. Franz A. Cavalleri Erba, Italy...
...part of the Mexican government's efforts to crack down on drug smugglers, 17 policemen made a sweep of the mountainous "bandit country" in the state of Veracruz, 300 miles southeast of Mexico City. Nearing the banks of the Coachapa River in predawn darkness, the government force surprised a gang of some 50 drug traffickers in the act of loading 1,300 lbs. of marijuana onto a boat. The police had hardly shouted a warning when the smugglers opened fire...