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Another Angola. These days, arson seems Portugal's main answer to colonial troubles. In the vast African possession of Angola, the Portuguese army ruthlessly burns down native villages in retaliation for the burning of Portuguese plantations by guerrilla bands. With the rains due this month, the army desperately seeks a military decision but can rarely come to grips with the elusive rebels. Farther north, below the bulge of Africa, lies a 2,800-sq.-mi. sliver of Portuguese territory called Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese...
...termites are on the move and gaining on man. Last year the wood-eating insects destroyed $250 million worth of U.S. property, more than the national loss from arson, tornadoes and lightning-and more than twice the damage the bugs did only a decade ago. Furthermore, encouraged by milder winters, termites are pushing steadily north, reports Dr. Thomas Elliott Snyder, 76, research associate of the Smithsonian Institution...
...garbage men, dropping in on sidewalk cafés for a chat, handing out fines for tossing fruit peelings on the street. He also likes to set himself up as a one-man prosecutor, judge and jury, has personally tried defendants accused of crimes ranging from Communist terrorism to arson. In many cases, his verdict is death...
machine gun fire and arson...
...that already crowd 12 to 18 people into a single house, spend their time talking, arguing and fighting their own civil war against the Fidelistas in Miami's permanent Cuban population of some 40,000. Score in recent weeks: two dynamitings, four Molotov-cocktail attacks, one case of arson, about evenly split between pro-and anti-Castro factions...