31.   A few engaged in open arguments at gunpoint with rival armed gangs, or displayed their Taliban prisoners with broad-chested glee.

32.   After months of simmering tensions, rival gangs of Latino teenagers staged a bloody shoot-out in a run-down corner of the city at the beginning of last week.

33.   But in short order, and as a result, Miner acknowledges, a rival Hispanic gang became more powerful.

34.   During a fight with a rival gang, he was shot in the back.

35.   For months, members of the rival gangs had been assassinating each other in wild shootouts at discos and restaurants.

36.   Four years later, he led a group of seven teen-agers who beat up a member of a rival gang in Bushwick, Brooklyn.

37.   Gomez was testifying in a murder case against Billy Joe Cornejo, who was accused of fatally shooting a rival gang member.

38.   Harris said the gang has been at war with a rival gang since March, when his home was shot at.

39.   He denied the contention, by several students, that the fight was part of a turf battle between two rival gangs.

40.   He said at least two rival gangs appear to be trying to establish the base as their territory.