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...week's end the death toll had reached 95, and at least 106 people were injured. That made the Dupont Plaza inferno the second worst hotel fire in U.S. history, surpassed only by the Winecoff Hotel blaze in Atlanta in 1946, which killed 119. Most of the victims died in the casino, and the rest were found in hallways and rooms on the first four floors...
...applauded by his colleagues. On Thursday, Bonner insisted there would be no further visits for the rest of the week. The next day Sakharov sat for interviews with two U.S. television networks, again with no signs of censorship or restraint. While the years in exile have clearly taken their toll on Sakharov's health, they have just as clearly failed to diminish his spirit...
...maintained by preventing outside help from reaching the starving. No soup kitchens were set up, as they had been during the much less severe famines of the czarist era. Conquest argues that Stalin was aiming at the genocide of the Ukrainians, whose nationalist yearnings he despised and feared. The toll supports his view. Of the 7 million who died of hunger, 6 million were Ukrainians...
...sort of bread. A party official complained, "Look at the parasites! They went digging for acorns in the snow with their bare hands -- they'll do anything to get out of working." Villages became ghost towns, with families lying dead in every house. Conquest reckons that the final death toll from the entire war against the peasants was 14.5 million souls...
...deaths. It will also uncover heart disease in many people who are unaware that they have it. The stress and Holter tests are costly (about $200 each), according to Dr. Carl Pepine, a silent-ischemia expert from the University of Florida at Gainesville, but no more so than the toll ultimately taken by heart disease itself. Says he: "We're talking about the one disease that kills the most people in the country, many in middle age, when they are making their greatest contribution to society. That's expensive...