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...violence confined to the university grounds. The student terrorist organization is closely linked to the FALN (Armed Front for National Liberation), which in the last six months has destroyed an oil refinery, burned a Sears Roebuck warehouse, plundered an exhibition of Van Gogh and Cezanne paintings, hijacked the freighter Anzoategul, and performed numerous other acts of violence...
...them. But Betancourt made peace with his soldiers, and out in the countryside, peasants who elected him President loyally helped the government hunt down the guerrillas. Fidel Castro's Havana radio still cries daily for violent revolution. But the campaign has dwindled to desperate terrorist raids and publicity stunts like the hijacking of the freighter Anzoátegui (see next story...
...Matanzima quickly mustered 500 men to crush the revolt, and South African police stood by with a truckload of men and a helicopter. The rebels fled into the hills. Police blamed the trailer murders and the tribal outbreak on the increasing influence of Poqo (pronounced Paw-kaw), an African terrorist society whose members, like Kenya's notorious Mau Mau, take secret oaths and are heavily influenced by witch doctors. Poqo fanatics recently tried to assassinate Matanzima because he frankly favors apartheid as "the best solution" for South Africa's racial troubles...
...near the elevator on the second floor. At the same time, editors of La República were told to look in the trash can near the proofreaders' rest room. In both places were notes from the publicity-grabbing Armed Forces of National Liberation (FALN), a pro-Castro terrorist group that is trying to make things difficult for Venezuela's middle-reading President Rómulo Betancourt. The FALN's message: one of the government's ships is missing...
...Dumbwaiter and The Collection are two one-acters by Britain's Harold Pinter, a playwriting terrorist who can conjure up menace with the easy authority of a Hitchcock and pose Pirandellphic conundrums about the nature of truth and reality...