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Show I !: "? t If Si ' -1:1 j A BROOM'S HER ONL WEAPON - Rome - This shop assistant uses a broom as an emergency weapon in the "War of Monte Sacro" (a section of Rome) against an army of caterpillars, cater-pillars, crawling from the nearby near-by riverbank. Since chemical warfare has been tried and found wanting as a means of stemming the tide of caterpillars caterpil-lars that threaten houses and gardens, entomologists have called in "troops" of red ants as an "anti-caterpillar" measure. mea-sure. Until the recruits get here, however, a broom seems to be the only practical weapon. |