Word: spread
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...have long been a problem. But now Monterey Park, a once placid community east of the city, is torn by Chinese thugs. Orange County, home to tens of thousands of Indochinese immigrants, has a severe extortion problem. Hispanic gangs, some of them using identifying tattoos and hand signals, have spread throughout the area. The Mojados (wetbacks) specialize in small-time crime in downtown Los Angeles: pickpocketing and robbing motorists at knifepoint in underground garages. "It's find a buddy and go to Fifth and Hill for an easy hit or two," says Police Sergeant Joe Suarez...
...still wearing airline slippers, suggested that the passengers, most of them of Indian descent and many of them children, had been taken by surprise. "Explosion is considered a possibility," said Ashok Gehlot, India's Minister of State for Civil Aviation, "in view of the fact that the wreckage is spread over a wide area. Sabotage is a distinct possibility...
...Kaposi's sarcoma, a skin cancer that often strikes AIDS victims. In one study reported in Houston, just five out of 52 patients with advanced melanoma were successfully treated with interferon. But this handful was extraordinary: all signs of cancer disappeared within four months, even though the disease had spread to such organs as the liver and lungs...
...still too early to tell how the new Coke is doing. The sketchy numbers out so far are distorted by the enormous publicity over the taste change. So swiftly did the word spread, says Coke, that 81% of the U.S. population knew of it within 24 hours, more people than were aware in July 1969 that Neil Armstrong had walked on the moon. By now, says Dyson, fully 96% of Americans, or 225 million people, know that Coke has altered its taste...
...that troubled country, as usual, superlatives were insufficient to describe the scene. The fighting in the refugee camps between Palestinians and Shi'ites spread to other parts of West Beirut. On Friday morning, a shell struck a vegetable market there, killing or wounding 50 people. Two suicide bombers crashed an explosives-laden car into a Lebanese Army position, killing 23 and wounding 36. Since the victims were mostly from the predominantly Shi'ite Sixth Brigade, reports had it that the bombers were Sunni Muslims, who have sided with the Palestinians in the current struggle, and view with apprehension...