Word: tolles
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...last hours of the Viet Nam War took a cruel human toll. Communist and South Vietnamese casualties ran into the thousands. Four U.S. airmen joined the missing-in-action list when their two aircraft were downed on the last day. Another four Americans were known to have been killed-including Lieut. Colonel William B. Nolde, 43, of Mt. Pleasant, Mich., who was cut down in an artillery barrage at An Loc only eleven hours before the ceasefire. He was the 45,941st American to have died by enemy action in Viet Nam since...
...week a Royal Jordanian Airlines Boeing 707 coming in for a landing at Kano had to make a second attempt because of the blinding harmattan. As the plane landed on the second try, the 707 suddenly burst into flames, and 176 of its 202 passengers were killed. The death toll equaled that of an Aeroflot Ilyushin 62 crash near Moscow last October and shares its distinction as the highest in commercial aviation history...
...Death Toll. The CDC does not believe that the current outbreak will become an epidemic, but the flu is making its presence felt. The Massachusetts state health department has reported that school absenteeism has climbed as high as 20% in some sections of the state. Hawaiian authorities have noted a substantial increase in influenza-like disease on the island of Oahu, particularly among teen-agers and young children. No area appears to have been harder hit than northern California. Since Dec. 20, health authorities in Santa Clara County have blamed 20 deaths, mainly among the elderly, on pneumonia, a frequent...
...They will improve mass-transit systems (mainly bus) by buying new equipment and reserving highway lanes for express buses to the suburbs. They will require that old cars be "retrofitted" with devices to reduce exhaust emissions. Finally, they will encourage car pools by incentives such as free trips through toll gates...
...Attica riot a radical conspiracy, or was it provoked by harsh treatment of prison inmates? Could the toll of 43 dead have been avoided? Countless books, studies and articles have debated the questions. Throughout all the argument, one group remained silent: the Wyoming County grand jury that was poring over the evidence to determine what criminal charges should be brought. Now it is handing down its indictments-37 so far-and last week the first formal accusations were brought against convict leaders who emerged during the revolt...