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...deaths brought the overall toll in the unrest to 170 killed since the Baku riots, with more than 600 wounded...
Many suppliers blame the 1980s buyout binge for the Campeau debacle. In the process of arranging enormous loans for overreaching raiders, the lenders and investment bankers paid little or no attention to whether the buyouts could survive over the long haul. The toll has been particularly heavy among retailing companies. In a study of 25 retail buyouts between 1983 and 1985, the Ernst & Young accounting firm found that nearly 40% had gone bankrupt or slashed their operations. For big-eyed shoppers like Campeau, the buyouts might have looked tempting, but they were hardly bargains...
...missed their landing zones. The shelling of Noriega's Comandancia headquarters destroyed houses in the adjacent Chorrillo neighborhood, where many poor people live. Air attacks on the San Miguelito area were devastating. The U.S. embassy said 300 Panamanian civilians died (unofficial estimates go as high as 800), an alarming toll. Many Panamanians criticized the failure of the Americans to move against the looting that engulfed Panama City. "There should have been troops placed along commercial arteries," complained Steve Maduro, a past director of Panama's Chamber of Commerce. "Our police force was nonexistent, and it was utter chaos for three...
...army switched allegiance -- and that was the beginning of the end for Ceausescu, who fled with his wife. TV newsreaders in Bucharest claimed last week that 80,000 people or more were killed in the struggle that began with the slaughter in Timisoara; Western diplomats thought the death toll was far smaller -- perhaps thousands, but not tens of thousands. Bernard Kouchner, France's Secretary of State for Humanitarian Affairs, who visited Bucharest last week, said the Rumanian Ministry of Health could confirm only 746 deaths and some 1,800 wounded. An exact figure may never be learned...
...death toll soared, with hundreds of bodies lying in the streets. There were even unconfirmed reports that Syrian and Libyan mercenaries were aiding the pro-Ceausescu forces. As the fighting intensified, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev offered to send medical aid to the anti-Ceausescu forces, and Western diplomats suggested that the growing bloodshed might even lead to direct Soviet intervention on the side of the revolutionaries...