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...cases involve agents for the Soviet Union, China and Israel. U.S. counterintelligence agencies are working harder than ever to hit back at spying, hoping to slow a growth industry. Groups for and against Star Wars woo the public. The City of Brotherly Love is plagued by racism. Mobile youth gangs roam from Los Angeles. Cartoonists offer more than comic relief...
Back in the 1960s and 1970s, when juvenile delinquents were called juvenile delinquents, youth gangs stuck close to home and defended their turf against invasion by other gangs. No more. The age of the mobile youth gang has arrived. Striking out from poorer neighborhoods, they are fanning into wealthy areas and often faraway towns, breaking into jewelry stores and snatching wallets from pedestrians...
...most evident in the Los Angeles area, where police have identified no fewer than 450 gangs with more than 45,000 members. This represents a 25% rise since 1980, fed largely by the city's influx of Asians and Hispanics. Says Kelly Preseley of the Los Angeles Community Youth Gang Services Project: "It's a mobile society, and this is freeway paradise...
Youngsters who get pregnant often have a history of feeling deprived and neglected. Many have been abused or raped. "Their getting pregnant has nothing to do with sex," observes Pat Berg, director of a Chicago program for homeless youth. "It's attempting in a perverse sense to get some security and nurturing needs met . . . It's like when kids get puppies." Finally, there is little social pressure to persuade them to postpone childbearing, notes Joy Dryfoos, who has conducted research for the Rockefeller Foundation. Middle-class girls tend not to have babies, she says, "because Mother would kill them...
...many of the young men there is also a conflict between the desire to provide for their children and doubts about their own abilities as providers. Says Tommy Milladge, a counselor at the Youth and Family Center in Lawndale, Calif.: "The paradox felt by teen fathers is that while they want the young lady to receive services, they are ambivalent because they can't provide for them the way they should. It defeats their masculinity." Until recently it was thought that this same sense of masculine pride would prevent young fathers from participating in programs designed to help them...