Word: deadness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...extinctions. Many plants and animals are doomed, no matter what measures are taken. Some researchers estimate that at least 12% of the bird species in the Amazon basin, as well as 15% of the plants in Central and South America, can be counted among what Janzen calls the "living dead." Many tropical mammals and reptiles face only bleak survival under what amounts to house arrest in game parks and zoos...
...ravaged cities of Leninakan and Spitak from around the globe began to head home last week. Ryzhkov, who spent 13 days in the area as head of a special Politburo commission supervising the relief efforts, offered a grim tally before he returned to Moscow. The number of dead, he reported, was certain to exceed 55,000. Relief workers had rescued 15,300, while 514,000 had been left homeless by the quake. The cost of rebuilding Armenia: much higher than the original estimate of $8 billion. Said a weary Ryzhkov: "A disaster is a serious test not only for friends...
...scourged by armies from Jordan to Israel but never destroyed. He has promised his people much but ! never delivered. In 1982 he was drummed out of Lebanon, and just a year ago he was all but ignored at an Arab summit that consigned the Palestinian problem to the dead file. Yet a combination of events and his uncanny talent for survival have pushed him back...
...vision of horror," gasped a stunned Dr. Patrick Aeberhard, president of the French humanitarian aid group Medecins du Monde. An estimated 70% of the town's 20,000 population lies entombed, victims of the devastating earthquake that hit two weeks ago. Throughout the region, at least 50,000 are dead, 130,000 injured, 500,000 homeless...
...looters had been arrested. But 20,000 tents bound for Leninakan disappeared. To prevent looting, a midnight-to-5 a.m. curfew was imposed throughout Armenia, and troops patrolled the streets of Leninakan. TASS reported that a man was arrested in Kirovakan for stripping watches and earrings from the dead. Soviet soldiers were seen removing boots from the dead and trying them on for size. "We shouldn't hide the fact that all kinds of scum are coming to tragedy sites for an easy profit," said army Lieut. General V. Dubinyak, chief of staff of the Interior Ministry troops...