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...quickly withdrew support for Suchinda following the King's intervention; on Sunday the Prime Minister resigned. Thus an uneasy peace returned to Bangkok after days of violence caused mostly by soldiers who had repeatedly fired into crowds of demonstrators. By Suchinda's count, 40 Thais died; the true death toll may never be known, but it probably reaches into the hundreds...
...COUNT MIGHT YET GO HIGHER: SOME 200 OF THE nearly 2,400 injured might succumb, and cleanup crews might find more bodies in burned-out buildings. But the death toll, currently 53, already certifies the Los Angeles riots as the bloodiest in the U.S. in at least 75 years. And the embers from more than 5,500 fires still smolder, metaphorically -- as George Bush found out touring the riot areas last week. His guardians were so concerned for his security that they would not tell TV crews what route he would take, lest live coverage draw hostile demonstrators. But some...
...those fighting the blazes. By Friday, some 4,000 members of the California National Guard took up positions in the city; President Bush announced that 6,500 federal forces, including fbi and swat units and contingents of the infantry and Marines, were prepared to help restore order. But the toll of deaths, injuries, property destroyed and hopes blasted mounted. And similar, though smaller, demonstrations and outbursts of violence hopscotched across...
...moth has decimated millions of acres in Siberia and China. Among the reasons: the Asian moths can cover 20 miles before laying their eggs. (Females of the European variety do not fly.) If the Asian gypsy moth becomes entrenched in the Pacific Northwest, the Forest Service estimates that the toll on the timber industry could run upwards of $35 billion over the next 40 years. By contrast, Washington's spray program -- which is scheduled to run about six weeks and cover 116,500 acres -- will cost $8.9 million. British Columbia has already started spraying, and Oregon has just begun...
Expo does not suffer in the comparison. There are a dozen works of intriguing, even distinguished architecture. Some of the 100-odd buildings seem commissioned by clueless bureaucrats inclined to toll-booth architecture, and several by well-intentioned arts-and-crafts types, but the surprise is how many compelling, even cutting-edge buildings have been put up. And there is not much correlation between national wealth and pavilion quality. A few small countries can be very proud, and some big, rich countries ought to be embarrassed...