Last year a court in Manisa found that a barber's shop had been set on fire not as the police first claimed by a Molotov cocktail but by a leaky gas cylinder.

ECONOMIST: Turkey

Worse has been threatened: Raymond Villeneuve, the leader of the wildest anti-partitionists (and one who has been convicted of killing in his cause) has talked of a Molotov-cocktail campaign against zealous federalists.

ECONOMIST: Canada

The man painting this picture stands 6 foot 4, has long arms flying out of an old cowboy leather vest, and curly hair fashioned in the student-Molotov-cocktail-thrower style last seen on Abby Hoffman in 1968.

FORBES: BET ON THE HARES