Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Party. The other is the country's Sunni Muslim majority (72%), who consider the Shi'ites to be heretics. Extremists have exploited the traditional enmity, inciting violence where sectarian tension is high. Over the past year, there have been nearly 800 deaths, excluding the Maraş, toll...
...Armageddon. But all last week there were encouraging signs that the Shah's desperate attempt to keep the situation under control might succeed. Manning a bank of telephones at Tehran's well-guarded Niavaran Palace, he ordered army commanders to keep down the civilian death toll, something they have not always tried to do in the past. He announced the release of 122 political prisoners, including Karim Sanjabi, leader of the opposition National Front, who had been arrested a month earlier after visiting Khomeini in France...
...cancer. Police found huge caches of illegal arms, ranging from automatic rifles to crossbows, but hundreds of thousands of dollars had disappeared from the colony's safe. And only at week's end did officials declare that there were virtually no survivors in the forest, and that the death toll was not 409, as first announced, but about...
...independent, too powerful and too free-spending fourth arm of Government. "The agencies today," says a leading eco nomic policymaker in the Carter Administration, "are inde pendent baronies. They're like castles on the Rhine in the Middle Ages, when each castle stopped boats and collected a toll. Each agency collects its toll...
SEPTEMBER 7--Tropical Storm Norman dumped a blizzard on California's Sierra Nevadas. Its toll next day: four people dead, 17 missing. Too easily I could have been a fifth or an 18th. As it was, I watched two people dying...