Word: tolls
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...charge that the 20- member police force has been tossing "undesirables" into garbage pits or driving them deep into the desert and leaving them. Troll-busting attacks on the homeless in Santa Barbara and Santa Cruz are sharply down from 1984. But the intimidation appears to have taken its toll nonetheless. "After the attacks and the shooting into the bushes and cars where they sleep, a lot of the street people have left town and haven't come back," says Peter Carota, who runs the St. Francis Catholic Kitchen in Santa Cruz. "This hateful talk and terrorism have been very...
...enormous morale boost to the Sandinistas. Each side knows that a successful major offensive in the next few weeks could help sway fence-sitters on Capitol Hill, and fighting has accordingly intensified. The fitful guerrilla war has spread to eight of the country's 16 departments, and the death toll is mounting. In the first two weeks of February alone, the Sandinistas claimed 189 contra casualties...
Israel's efforts to gain the support of the Shi'ites, who make up 80% of the population of the south, had failed, and a growing resistance movement against the Israeli presence had exacted a mounting toll of casualties. Syria provided moral and logistical support to the Shi'ite resistance, finding this a way to fight Israel at little cost. One of the worst consequences of the Israeli invasion of Lebanon, as Israel's Defense Minister Yitzhak Rabin put it last month, is that it let "the Shi'ite genie out of the bottle...
...crash was the third major air disaster in Spain in less than 15 months and brought the total death toll to 422. Said Manuel Lopez de Pedro, president of the Spanish airline pilots' association: "Something must be very wrong with Spanish aviation when there are so many accidents." While the exact cause of last week's crash is still under investigation, it appears that Pilot Jose Luis Patino was flying three miles off course and 1,000 ft. too low when the plane hit the TV mast. Neither the antenna nor Mount Oiz was on the plane's official approach...
Kasparov, robust and athletic, held up well over the months, but the toll on Karpov was high. He has reportedly lost 15 lbs. since September, and is said to have been treated for exhaustion and strain at a clinic for the party elite. Two weeks ago, Karpov, normally an icily precise defensive genius, began to blunder. Kasparov drove to victory in the 47th and then the 48th game. Meanwhile, he says, Soviet chess officials had begun quietly pressuring him to agree to end the match. Shortly thereafter, Campomanes appeared in Moscow, amid rumors that the Soviets, who are heavily represented...