They also proscribed Raiders jackets, which state authorities have associated with teen-age gangs.

It deteriorated in the late 1960's when residents moved to the suburbs and teen-age gangs took over.

B1 A fight between two teen-age gangs outside a Bronx junior high school leftone teen-ager killed and another injured.

A Newark police detective, who declined to be identified, speculated that the killers may be members of teen-age gangs aping each other.

Scrapbooks of children's schoolwork and the record of a 1934 school board meeting addressing the problems with teen-age gangs are reminders that some things never change.

We have a lot of trouble with teen-age gangs, and it's getting worse.

With a teen-age gang called the Bulldogs, he built barricades to support a transit strike in his native Philadelphia.

"You're all part of a teen-age gang,"he howled hysterically.

"They were not like a teen-age gang or a gang out of the projects," he added.

In none of his works has Twain ever condoned or romanticized the teen-age gang or any other gang.