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...killed as exaggerations, while King Fahd called the calamity "God's will." Said he: "Had they not died there, they would have died elsewhere." The unapologetic monarch suggested that the pilgrims themselves were to blame for not abiding by "official instructions." Later the government conceded on the death toll, but the King, in a radio address, clung to his claim of inculpability, asking, "Can anyone stop death...
...deny that AIDS victims deserve all the compassion and help that society can muster. The latest statistics presented at the conference show that the toll is still mounting and the end of the epidemic is nowhere in sight. At least 600,000 Americans are infected with the virus, more than 136,000 have become sick, and some 83,000 of those have died...
TOTAL RECALL. Someone has stolen Arnold Schwarzenegger's mind! No great loss: Arnold still has his body, which muscles its way through two planets and a death toll in the hundreds to deliver high-tech, high-octane entertainment. In every sense, the movie is bloody sensational...
...along the Caspian Sea. First accounts spoke of 50 dead, but the number soon mounted geometrically. By noon, it was 1,000; by evening, 10,000; by midnight, 25,000. By the next day, it was 45,000, plus 130,000 injured. There were fears that the final death toll might range beyond...
...cutter sees the toll that greed has exacted from the land. But it was not so apparent early in his career. "There was tremendous waste in those days," he recalls. "Profit was the name of the game. We thought we would never run out of timber. We started way too late on reforestation." Now he recognizes the need to protect nature from man. "We've only got this one old earth," he says, "and we better take care of it. I most certainly do not think 'environmentalist' is a dirty word. Anybody who isn't one has his head...