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...death toll from a devastating fire last Feb. 25 in the shantytown-or favela-of Vila Soco, in the southern Brazilian town of Cubatao, was simply too low. Only 86 bodies were recovered after a gasoline-fed blaze exploded into a giant fireball that looked like an atomic mushroom cloud. Yet some 9,000 people lived in Vila SocÓ, a patchwork of wooden shacks built on stilts over a marshy swamp. Coroner Carlos Affonso Figueiredo found it strange that no bodies of children under five years of age had been discovered among the ashes and in the hot rubble...
...Fernández y Krohn, 33, Spanish priest of an archtraditionahst Roman Catholic faction who last May attempted to kill Pope John Paul II with a bayonet at Portugal's Shrine of Our Lady of Fatima; to seven years and one month in prison; in Vila Nova de Ourém, Portugal. The term includes seven months for contempt of court for disrupting his trial. At his sentencing he shouted, "Puppets! Assassins! Communists!" at his judges...
...Friday John Paul was acting as if the attack had never occurred. Visiting the agricultural community of Vila Viçosa 90 miles east of Lisbon, in a stronghold of grass-roots Communism where dirt-poor farm laborers seized estates in the wake of the 1974 revolution, the Pontiff issued a rousing call for "fundamental human rights" and better living conditions for rural workers. Afterward, he stepped out into the crowd, pushing through a tight police cordon to shake hands. At one point he beckoned to a cluster of men and women wearing broad-brimmed straw hats and blankets draped...
...strongest in society when people deal with death is not necessarily a dying force. Perhaps the contrary. In Central Asia, local authorities have tried to give military funerals to soldiers killed in action against the Afghan rebels; on a few occasions, these attempts met with violent resistance by vila few occasions, these attempts met with violent resistance by villagers who wanted their sons buried according to Islamic custom, not the dictates of the state. The authorities moved quickly to hush up the incidents...
...French, the islanders captured Santo's police and radio stations, seized an armory, and proclaimed "the provisional government of Vemarana." The rebels, who are French speaking, reject the New Hebrides independence plan because they fear the new regime, dominated by the English-speaking populace in the capital of Vila, on the island of Efate 170 miles to the south, is insensitive to their needs...