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...Central District has never been the safest neighborhood in Seattle, but when members of the Crips and Bloods moved up from Los Angeles to join wannabe gangs already in existence, the resulting gang war increased violence in the neighborhood dramatically...
...John Gotti is now an unmade man. Many lower-rung mobsters did not like his high-profile strutting for the media; they were especially outraged that it was his right-hand man, Salvatore "Sammy Bull" Gravano, who delivered up his old mentor, as well as underboss Frank Locascio. "The safest place for John Gotti is in jail," observes Michael Cherkasky, head of investigations for the Manhattan district attorney. Gotti may hope to run the Gambino operation from prison, as Colombo boss Carmine Persico, serving 100 years, is trying to do with his family, but dissension is too strong among...
...thought that prison was the safest place to go," said Olmos. "Then I learned about flame throwers...
...Queen's Road Central is the focal point of the toniest shopping and business district in one of the world's safest cities. But earlier this month, hundreds of terrified lunchtime pedestrians rushed for cover as four armed jewelry- store robbers opened fire to make their getaway with $1.3 million worth of gold and gems. Although two suspects were nabbed, the heist was one of the more spectacular of the 100-odd armed robberies committed in Hong Kong this year...
Anticipation sharpened after the gulf war, whose impact on Israel Schneerson supposedly predicted. Before the fighting began, the Lubavitcher rebbe, or spiritual leader, declared that Israel would be the "safest place in the world." Actually, 74 Israelis died, all but six of them from heart problems caused by the terror of 39 Iraqi Scud-missile attacks. Still, the loss of so few lives seemed to many Lubavitchers the result of divine Providence...