Word: irishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...jittery gang members, under the impression that a rival group was gathering, opened fire, wounding two and killing one. In cities large and small, the surge of new immigrants has led to a sharp rise in crimes committed by ethnic gangs. In earlier waves of migration, the members were Irish, Jewish and Italian. Now they are primarily Hispanic and, increasingly, Asian. In January FBI Director William Webster added Asian gangs to the bureau's list of priority concerns...
...Miami. The offspring of the brutal Marielitos seem to be different from their parents, reports University of Miami Sociologist Jerome Wolfe. "The children have been no great social problem," he says. "They are being assimilated and Americanized. They are future good citizens, like the descendants of the once feared Irish, Italian and Jewish gang members...
Ever since the first slave ships unloaded their human cargo 360 years ago, black Americans have witnessed a succession of determined immigrants -- Germans, Irish, Jews, Italians -- weather discrimination to achieve a measure of acceptance and economic success that far surpassed their own. Once again the pattern is repeating itself. With a mixture of animosity and admiration, and no small dose of resentment, blacks are watching the new immigrants from Asia and Latin America flourish where blacks have not. Already the median household income of Koreans, Vietnamese, Haitians, Cubans and Mexicans has climbed past that of blacks...
Though there were no new disasters last week to fuel the global jitters further, the images of recent violence lingered. A hijacking in Athens. An airport bombing in Frankfurt. A luggage explosion in Tokyo. A plane crash off the Irish coast. In the aftermath of so much tragedy, governments struggled to identify the causes and find and punish those responsible, while tightening security on the ground and in the air to prevent recurrences...
...been set up in Britain and Ireland to coordinate a giant rescue team that included 14 helicopters, four reconnaissance planes and a fleet of more than a dozen military and merchant vessels. By early evening the workers had picked up 144 bodies and airlifted them to Cork, where Irish authorities set up a special mortuary. The possibility of anyone's surviving was remote. One rescue spotter likened the body-strewn scene to "a battlefield...