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...people close enough for immediate doses of radiation first succumb to other injuries. More than 250,000 Detroiters were within 2½miles of ground zero; nearly all are now dead. Pedestrians and drivers are incinerated in a molten slag of cars. Skyscrapers burst and fall. Nearly 20 sq. mi. of the city are leveled...
...this 33-sq.-mi. secondary ring of destruction, almost everyone is a casualty. Across the Detroit River in Windsor, Canadians strolling the promenade are severely burned and then pounded by fragments from Detroit's Renaissance Center, hurled across the river by 160-m.p.h. winds...
Life has become an ordeal for the people of this hauntingly beautiful land of tropical flowers, green mountainsides and winding gorges. Already burdened with the region's highest population density (593 per sq. mi.) and one of Latin America's lowest per capita incomes ($670 a year), the Salvadorans now face the possibility of economic collapse. The war has brought foreign investment to a halt, chased millions of dollars' worth of capital out of the country and crippled many transportation and communication links. The country's gross national product has dropped 19.5% since...
...grip of the Iraqi army around the key oil refinery city of Abadan. The Iranians also launched a series of successful attacks on Iraqi positions along the southern segment of the border between the two countries. In addition, the Iranians have recovered a total of about 155 sq. mi. of land at different points along the 625-mile front...
...continued to throw tens of thousands of ill-trained but fanatically loyal Islamic Guards and volunteers against the beleaguered Iraqi forces. Evidently helpless to reverse the course of an unpopular war, Iraqi President Saddam Hussein has indicated his readiness to negotiate withdrawal of his troops from the 800 sq. mi. of Iranian territory still occupied by his troops. Nonetheless, Saddam is clearly not prepared to accept terms so humiliating that they would precipitate his fall from power...