World IN BRIEF : CUBA : Vigilantes Urged to Combat Night Crime
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Cuba’s Communist authorities urged official citizens’ vigilante groups in Havana to act firmly to suppress a sharp increase in crime accompanying nighttime electricity blackouts in the capital. Jorge Lezcano Perez, Communist Party chief for Havana, said tougher measures are being introduced to “halt delinquency.”
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