From the Hsinhua igency.
A violent armed clash has recently occurred between landless peasants and landowners ig Sape, State of Paraiba, North-Hast Brazil, according to a report from the state capital, Pessoa, The report said that some time ago, landless peasants in Sape seized the land of a local Latifundist called Adauto Gomes and established homes and began farming on it, With the help of the local authorities and other landlords, the owner drove the squatters off by force, But the peasants mistered their forces again and, better organised came to grip with the landlord's gang. MIwring a fierce engagement which lasted more than forty minutes, a landlord known as Reubens Regis received fatal wounds and died,