21.   Benny Youhanian wondered whether gangs were involved.

22.   A police report said most killings were by Protestant paramilitary groups, while Catholic and Protestant gangs were equally responsible for maimings and beatings by vigilante enforcers.

23.   A teen-age gang member who on Monday visited the site of the shooting said that the Cypress Park Avenues gang is not one to be messed with.

24.   Across Europe, Russian gangs are involved in drug trafficking, weapons sales, computer fraud, car theft, prostitution and scores of other crimes.

25.   According to the indictment released yesterday, the gang was angered because Ms. Santana failed to pay for some narcotics she had been given.

26.   After serving three years in prison for attempted murder, Marianne Diaz-Parton still thinks her gang was not a bad influence.

27.   But gangs are not without their defenders.

28.   But in their business dealings, the gang was smart and efficient, he said.

29.   But now the value gang is back.

30.   But Miss Caponi said that such gangs were responsible for fewer than half the cases her group registered.