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...know, but it is getting worse." The prospect for 1975, he said, is "ominous." One measure is the number of heroin-related deaths. Between 1971 and 1973, that figure fell from 1,726 to 1,017. For the first half of 1974 alone, the death toll was 691. Applicants at treatment centers are also increasing. From July to September of last year, hospitals reported a 66% rise in overdose cases compared with the same period the previous year...
Last week, as survivors picked their way through the ruins looking for loved ones, the Pakistani army began a helicopter airlift to the victims. Authorities feared that the toll might rise when rescue teams make contact with other villages that have been entirely cut off by the quake...
...Khmer insurgents are expected to resume their attacks against Phnom-Penh and the few other major cities still controlled by the Lon Nol government. Neither side appears strong enough to deliver a knockout blow, and many more statistics will certainly be added to the already ghastly five-year toll: 600,000 Cambodians killed or wounded and one-half of the 7 million population made into homeless refugees...
Flying Iron. By week's end, the death toll had reached 48 and was expected to rise; at least 900 were injured and 100 missing. Nearly half the population were without even the shell of a home for shelter; the city had no potable water, power or a working sewage system. Relief officials feared outbreaks of cholera and tetanus induced by contaminated water supplies and inadequate medical treatment...
Because of inbreeding and overbreeding, some varieties of dogs are becoming increasingly vicious, resulting in a rising toll of dogbite victims; more than a million Americans are bitten annually. The irony is that no people, with the possible exception of the British, cares more about animals. New York's state legislature passed the first effective law prohibiting the cruel treatment of animals in 1866-43 years before passage of legislation prohibiting cruel treatment of children. But even in those days, a great deal of animal lovers' money and effort went into quixotic causes like fighting feathered hats, circuses...