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...encircled by a gang of 30 Dartmouth students outside Winthrop House...

Author: By Joshua M. Sharfstein, | Title: Dudes, Where Are the Parties? | 10/25/1989 | See Source »

...violence could worsen since the rebel gang, headed by former mine surveyor Francis Ona, has grown increasingly radical in its aims. In April the group called for the secession of the North Solomons province, of which Bougainville forms the major part. Meanwhile, the economy of P.N.G., which draws 20% of its domestic revenues from the mine, is hemorrhaging. The government is offering a $200,000 reward for Ona and seven others, dead or alive...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PAPUA NEW GUINEA Blood and Copper | 10/16/1989 | See Source »

Junge Welt, the Communist Party youth newspaper, said the "gang of Western news reporters" stirred up the protests...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: 70,000 East Germans Rally for Democracy | 10/10/1989 | See Source »

Since June a band of thieves in the Los Angeles area has staged more than 30 violent raids on travel agencies. The gang demands blank tickets and the validation plates that print airline identifications, then sells thousands of hot tickets on the black market at a 50% discount. During heists in recent weeks, two female employees were raped, one agent was knifed and another killed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Los Angeles: First-Class Felony | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

...Connor, Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy -- on the basis of conservative ideology. The three appear to have forged an alliance with Byron White and William Rehnquist, whom Reagan elevated to Chief Justice in 1986. Together, says Geoffrey Stone, dean of the University of Chicago Law School, they form a "gang of five that increasingly operates without taking into consideration the views of the other four Justices...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Law: Enter, Stage Right | 10/9/1989 | See Source »

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