Word: youthe
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...hardest hit, particularly the Los Angeles area. Says Detective John Clark: "We're keeping a lid on it, but that's about all." There are 422 gangs reported in the county, and they "are putting communities over the barrel of a gun," says Tom Garrison, an aide in the youth gang agency of Los Angeles. This "is a war zone." The Mexican Mafia and Nuestra Familia, both hatched in prison, 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...
...fled Ho Chi Minh City at age eight with a younger brother, his older sister and her husband. "I wouldn't be her boy anymore. I would be an American stranger." Still, within the two-story brick house he shares with eight other people, Son becomes a model Vietnamese youth, industrious, responsible, deferential. In that household, Vietnamese is spoken, Vietnamese food is prepared, Vietnamese customs are followed. Son's mother has not been permitted to leave Ho Chi Minh City, and after a decade of separation, he often wonders how he would greet her. With an exuberant American-style...
...looked closer, they would find some of their suspicions unfounded. Though many narcotics enter the U.S. from Central and South America, addiction among Hispanic Americans, according to drug-enforcement agencies, appears to be less common than in black ghettos and indeed in many poor and middle-class Anglo districts. Youth gangs are a problem in some areas, but police generally report that barrio crime rates at worst are no higher than in poor black and white areas. Illegal immigrants in particular seem to be less the perpetrators than the victims of crimes, which they often are reluctant to report...
...Angeles also faces claims over Father David Roemer, who pleaded no contest in three cases of child molesting in 1981. But a New Jersey family whose son killed himself after he was allegedly molested by a Franciscan brother had its suit thrown out. The victim was a participant in youth ministries, and a state law exempts organizations like the Archdiocese of Newark from damage suits by those who use and benefit from its services...
...Lost Ark, The Goonies is all bustle and noise and adolescent ingenuity. Like E.T.: The Extra-Terrestrial, Back to the Future has a gentler pace and a heart as big as all suburbia. Both new pictures trumpet the familiar Spielberg moral: stranded in the wilderness of kiddom, American youth can fight its way out and help its parents survive...