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...Southeast Bronx, the unrest has spawned gangs with such sinistersounding names as the Savage Skulls, Young Sinners, Savage Nomads, Mongols and Reapers. Each clique has from 20 to 50 members ruled by a president, vice president and warlord. Their "colors," elaborate coats-of-arms stitched to the backs of their denim jackets, depict bloody skeletons and skulls, fire and lightning. Their arsenals include not only clubs, chains, knives and zip guns but also Molotov cocktails, rifles, shotguns and, say youth workers, hand grenades and machine guns...
...Overseas Chinese," says Chen. "For 45 years I have tried to work for the good of my motherland. The old warlord China was a burden on the world. Now China can help others. I think it is ready to play a positive and constructive role...
CLARK: I've been disappointed by the failure to clean up very obvious corruption, although there has probably been some improvement on the province-chief level. The average province chief today is a military appointee of Thieu who can't operate openly like a Chinese warlord, exacting tribute from his followers. As for broadening the political base of Thieu's government, although it is a very Western concept, I think eventually he will do it. Should it come about at the price of constant bickering and plotting? Thieu has asked some of those Vietnamese who call...
Despite the turmoil, Vogel insists, in 20 years the Communists have welded a tightly disciplined, centralized approach to national problems that guides the thinking of local leaders throughout the country. This great improvement over Chiang Kai-shek's warlord juggling lets the Chinese approach their goals more surefootedly in 1970 than...
There were few dramatic successes for the Viet Minh during the war years, and Ho, on a journey back into China, was jailed by a Nationalist warlord. He spent a year in prison, finally won his freedom and promptly began seeking support from American elements then in South China. He got in touch with an extraordinary number of U.S. officers, skillfully promoting his cause. His growing reputation led the U.S. Office of Strategic Services (forerunner of the CIA) to make contact with Ho in 1945 in the jungles along the China-Viet Nam border. Under the code name "Lucius...