Word: grove
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...bloody scene was bad enough: six people were wounded; two, a 17-year-old and a boy of four, lay dead, cut down by automatic gunfire in Garden Grove, Calif. But what infuriated Ralph Rodriguez, a cousin of the dead child's, was that not one witness was willing to tell police what everyone knew: the slaughter was a revenge killing by the 5th Street gang from nearby Santa Ana, where Rodriguez lives. "I started screaming, and I made people talk to the police," he recalls. "I knew everybody they named as the shooters. I knew all their families." Rodriguez...
...since 1984, the group set a fund-raising record of $15 million in 1989. It spent $1.5 million to defeat Michael Dukakis in the 1988 presidential race, and its efforts are credited with turning a portion of the vote against him. And since 1981, when Morton Grove, Ill., became the first American town to pass a comprehensive handgun ban, the N.R.A. has persuaded 38 states to pass pre-emptive laws that prohibit similar actions by local communities...