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...then, that rescuers believe the death toll may be much lower than initially feared. In the early days of the crisis, Mayor Ray Nagin predicted that New Orleans and its environs would see 10,000 dead. But by Saturday fewer than 200 bodies had been found, leading retired U.S.M.C. Colonel Terry Ebbert, the city's homeland-security director, to declare that "the numbers so far are relatively minor compared to the dire predictions" of Nagin and others. Ebbert says it will take authorities two weeks to make a reliable estimate of the casualties, and the precise figure will take longer...
...spoke with, all said they were sleeping no more than four hours a night, mostly on the floor of the Corps' New Orleans office, which has reeking bathrooms and no running water. Rather, the simple immensity of the task has astonished even the most experienced Corps engineers. When Colonel Richard Wagenaar, the Corps' New Orleans commander, first tried to approach the flooded 17th Street Canal as the storm was subsiding, he couldn't get within half a mile of it because of all the water and downed electrical lines...
...that evening, seven helicopters from the Air Force Reserve 920th Rescue Wing out of Patrick Air Force Base, Fla., had ferried hundreds of refugees onto the runway at New Orleans Lakefront Airport, where they waited in darkness to go somewhere, anywhere. Beside them, Colonel Tim Tarchick, the wing commander, screamed into his satellite phone at someone from the Emergency Operations Center. "I've got 1,000 people who have been dropped here. We're out of food, and they're starting to get tense. We need security. It's like frickin' Baghdad here. You have to take control," he yelled...
...result, any cold war-style talk about "taking Chavez out" with "covert operatives," as Robertson suggested, just confers more Che Guevara cachet on the former army lieutenant colonel (who himself led a failed coup in 1992). And since Chavez has threatened to cut off oil exports to the U.S. at the first sign of gringo aggression, it makes America's important Venezuelan oil supply look all the more volatile...
...girls wearing makeup. "They're watching us, and they're the ones who control the streets, while the police, who are with them, stand by," says a student leader who did not wish to be identified. "From the beginning, the Islamic parties filled the void," says a police lieutenant colonel working closely with British forces. "They still hold the real power. The rank and file all belong to the parties. Everyone does. You can't do anything without them...