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Some of the new gangs in New York are animated by antidrug vigilantism; often they were formed specifically to run drug pushers out of their neighborhoods, and most of them severely punish members caught using heroin or cocaine. There is little evidence of this in the Philadelphia gangs. That is partly because drugs seem to be less prevalent there. As one young member explained succinctly, "You can't nod and gang-war at the same time." When not warring, drinking wine and listening to records appear to be the gangs' principal definition of a good time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: The Return of the Gang | 7/23/1973 | See Source »

...When someone from Kissinger's staff revealed that Cambodia was being bombed, Kissinger had wiretaps placed on all his subordinates to find out who was responsible. When Ellsberg gave the Pentagon papers to the American people in whose name they had been compiled, the government wanted so badly to punish him that it tried to bribe his judge. When antiwar Democrats began denouncing the war, the Democratic Party added VVAW, the Panthers and the Communist Party to the list of organizations against whom it was proper to subvert democracy to defend it. Nixon never went as far as Thieu...

Author: By Seth M. Kufferberg, | Title: Watergate and the Indochina War | 7/17/1973 | See Source »

...attempting to crack down on the guerrillas. As of last week, the bulk of the Lebanese army was concentrated near the refugee camps around Beirut, which meant that the fedayeen bases in the southeast were virtually unguarded. If the Israelis chose at this moment to cross the border and punish the guerrillas once more, Lebanon would clearly be right back at the brink...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Will Compromise Mean Coexistence? | 5/28/1973 | See Source »

...enterprises. While there obviously is plenty of political corruption on all sides, there is no evidence that Democrats?or other Republicans?burglarized offices, tapped telephones, kept huge caches of secret campaign funds to finance the disruption of opponents' campaigns, or tried to obstruct the judicial system's attempts to punish the offenders...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE ADMINISTRATION: Nixon's Nightmare: Fighting to Be Believed | 5/14/1973 | See Source »

...screened by a faculty advisor. Or else, publications tied to the school administration through subsidies think hard before printing anything which might provoke administration reprisals. It has not been unusual, particularly in the uneasy days of the late 60s and early 70s, for administrators to threaten, intimidate and even punish student editors by withholding or withdrawing funds...

Author: By Robert Decherd, | Title: Two Kinds of Shields | 4/17/1973 | See Source »

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