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...heat deaths go unreported as such; they are registered as fatalities from heart attack, stroke or other illness. Healthworkers will eventually compare actual deaths with normal mortality statistics to get a more accurate figure. On that basis, the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta will compare this year's toll with a record of more than 1,700 deaths in the scorching summer of 1980. This year air conditioning is more prevalent. But the nation also has more heat-susceptible elderly people -- and there may still be more sweltering weeks ahead...
...blow to Fatah's organization in the occupied territories, the uprising showed no signs of letting up. Last week's rioting, the worst in six months, left three Palestinians dead, including a nine-year- old Arab girl, and some 300 injured, many of them from beatings. The Palestinian death toll after nine months of unrest...
...time Sein Lwin fell, the official death toll in the disturbances had risen to 98, though foreign diplomats in Rangoon placed the figure at several times that number. Unofficial estimates held that more than 1,000 protesters had been killed by security forces and that many thousands more had suffered injuries...
Soldiers slid the flag-draped coffins of Zia, Raphel and 28 others onto planes bound for Islamabad and other Pakistani cities where relatives of the victims were waiting. The government originally put the death toll...
...nature of the job may also have taken its toll. Japanese managing directors, unlike general managers of U.S. teams, seldom arrange trades or put together rosters. Yet they are held responsible if the team fares badly. They usually have no background in the sport and are employed directly by the large corporations that finance the teams. Furuya, who had worked since 1955 for the Hanshin Electric Railway Co., the Tigers' owner, oversaw operations at Koshien Stadium before being appointed managing director. Furuya was "too earnest, sincere and had too strong a sense of responsibility," observed noted Sports Commentator Shinya Sasaki...