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...gang will all be there when Secretary of State George Shultz's jet heads for Geneva next month, but it is most unlikely to unite in a chorus of Hail, Hail! Instead, the flight may ring with the same discord that fills Washington whenever the subject turns to arms control, since chiefs of all the warring factions will be thrown together. One voice, however, is likely to stand out amid the babble. Paul Nitze, appointed last week by President Reagan as top negotiator and senior adviser to Shultz on arms control, will be the only U.S. official actually sitting...
...under 17 must be indoors or accompanied by an adult by 10:30 on weeknights, 11:30 on Fridays and Saturdays. More than 1,000 kids are arrested each week for violations of the curfew. The curfew has been used mainly as a means of controlling the tightly organized gangs of black and Hispanic youths-the Disciples, the Vicelords, the Egyptian Cobras-that terrorize their neighborhoods. So far this year, 133 Chicago youths have been killed in gang-related violence...
...infamous gang zone is the huge Cabrini-Green public housing project, a cluster of decaying high-rises on the near west side. Says an elderly woman who lives at the project: "They've all got guns or knives, and they act like they own the place." Not far away, at Crane High School, a large majority of the boys are said to be gang members or affiliates. "I'm scared all the time," says one girl, a junior at Crane. "Last year a boy standing right next to me in the hall was shot by another...
...cell was organizing a suicide bomb attack, perhaps directed at a garage located below the quarters that house many of the Marine guards. The police assume that since it would take at least 200 Ibs. of plastic explosives to blow up a building the size of the embassy, the gang was still in the process of building up its cache. In fact, according to the police, the gang may have been planning the attack for at least a year...
...pergola seeds to have escaped the gang performing Betrayal over at Dunster House, in the comfy climes of the bad-portrait-of-House-master-laden...