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...million gal. of precursor chemicals used in cocaine refinement and 32 tons of cocaine and coca paste, compared with 14 tons in the same period a year earlier. Sixteen suspected cartel traffickers have been captured and shipped to the U.S., and one of the most notorious kingpins, Jose Gonzalo Rodriguez Gacha, has been killed...
...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...
...Southern California's sad subculture of gang violence, such stand-up citizenry is rare. "This was a big break for law enforcement," explains Orange County Deputy District Attorney Tom Avdeef. "The gangs rule the neighborhoods like terrorists." Rodriguez would learn just how in the weeks that followed...
...student activism has engendered a positive response," Rodriguez said. "It's made the administration think about these issues and unless they think about them they'll be called to account...
...Clark hates nothing more than conflict," Rodriguez said, explaining that the new dean prefers to appease minority groups pushing for greater faculty representation...