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...marauders have mostly been responsible for robberies and muggings, but they have also committed far more serious crimes. In September, Brian Harris, 20, and Michelle Ann Boyd, 19, two students, were abducted near the UCLA campus and murdered by machine-gun fire. The four gang members charged with the crime were apparently after the couple's car. Instances of gang members murdering one another as well as innocent bystanders in vicious "drive by" shootings are up 90% through October...
First came the broken windows, then the potshots from a BB gun. Next came the hate-filled crowds in the street chanting, "We want them out!" Huddled inside their new home, Charles Williams, 23, and Marietta Bloxom, 24, watched with growing despair as their daughter Lekeisha, 7, cowered in the middle of the living room, afraid even to peer outside. Faced with the prospect of mob violence, Philadelphia Mayor Wilson Goode declared a state of emergency on Nov. 22 that banned outdoor gatherings of more than four people in a 30-block area around Williams' house. But by last week...
...Luqa International Airport refused to let the Egyptian airliner land, but authorities relented after Captain Galal told them that he was in imminent danger of crashing into the sea because he was nearly out of fuel. Even so, the runway lights were still off and Galal, with a gun barrel at his head, had to rely on his plane's landing lights to pierce the darkness as he touched down. The tower ordered him to taxi to a remote parking area; four police buses then blocked both ends of the airstrip...
...World Terrorists gun down travelers in Rome and Vienna. A surge of violence in South Africa...
Within two minutes after the shooting began, the gunmen escaped down a flight of stairs and headed for an employee garage, where one of them pulled a knife on an airport official and commandeered his Mercedes-Benz. In a running gun battle with police, the terrorists tossed a grenade at a pursuing patrol car (it missed), and police bullets flattened a tire and pierced the gas tank of the Mercedes. Just two miles from the airport, the killers were stopped. The toll: three dead, including one of the terrorists, and 47 wounded...