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...With entire blocks reduced to ash and rubble, the name Watts came to signify not just a black ghetto in south-central Los Angeles but black unrest across the U.S. By the time troops and police brought peace to what had become a 46.5-sq.-mi. war zone, the toll was tragic: 34 dead, 1,032 injured, 3,952 arrested, some 600 buildings ravaged, property loss around $40 million...
...sheer atmosphere of Watts takes a toll. Says Family Counselor Mary Taylor: "Children lose that good feeling about themselves." Ueemaee Russell, 11, who lives on Grape Street (just off "Charcoal Alley," as 103rd Street has been called since it burned), knows that "people are fighting now over dope and getting raped and kidnaped." When gunfire gets too bad near her house, Sixth-Grader Russell deals with it by crawling under...
Just 45 minutes after leaving Tokyo on the planned one-hour run, the huge U.S.-built Boeing 747 smashed into a mountain in a wilderness area often called the Tibet of Japan's Gumma prefecture. The death toll made it the worst single-plane accident in aviation history. Only the collision of two other 747s, one taxiing and the second racing toward takeoff, at fog-shrouded Tenerife in the Canary Islands on March 27, 1977, killed more people...
...stakes could scarcely be higher. The toll of the 9/11 attacks would probably pale alongside a successful attack on a nuclear plant near a major metropolitan area. A recent study by Edwin Lyman, a physicist with the Union of Concerned Scientists, estimates that if terrorists triggered a meltdown at the Indian Point nuclear power plant, 35 miles north of New York City, as many as 44,000 people could die from radiation poisoning within a year, and as many as 518,000 could perish eventually from cancers spawned by the attack. Millions of people in the greater New York area...
...addition to the impact on student enrollment, the string of professor departures dating back to West has also taken a toll on the Af Am department’s public image...