Word: tolls
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...best argument for preserving the program emerged last week: the first comprehensive study on the toll of the Viet Nam War on the Americans who served, undertaken by the Center for Policy Research in New York City and published by the Veterans Administration. Researchers, who interviewed 1,380 Viet Nam vets, concluded that they have been paying a disproportionate social price for their experience. Fully 24% of veterans who saw heavy combat were later arrested for criminal offenses. Though 70% went back to school, few finished. The vets have difficulty getting and holding jobs and have higher than average rates...
TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich happened to be at the embassy at the time of the raid and reported that the staff responded with relative calm. But the attacks have taken a toll: the vulnerable ambassador's office is no longer used, and staffers now hold meetings in an interior auditorium...
...cease-fire was generally observed by government forces, but not by El Salvador's right-wing death squads. The morning after the truce, the bodies of 38 victims were found in and around the capital. It was not even a record for a single day: the death toll from political violence now runs at about 170 a week, considerably below the weekly totals for December and January of 235 or more...
...profile did provide something of a focus for the formless dread, but it seemed to do nothing to help catch a killer. At week's end another body was found, this one floating in the South River in De Kalb County, bringing the death toll to 20 victims. The body was identified as that of Curtis Walker, 13, who had been missing since Feb. 19, when he failed to return home after looking for after-school work. Officials speculate that Walker's body may have been dropped into the river upstream from an overpass. Cause of death: asphyxiation...
...Martin Luther King Jr. Chapel at Atlanta's Morehouse College. Said King: "We are determined to project an assertive, nonviolent alternative to the fear and despair which has gripped our community." Still, a higher priority obviously remains: catching the source of that fear and despair before the toll climbs higher...