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...severe drought. Marxist Angola, under siege by UNITA, saw the wisdom of compromise following consistently heavy losses during South African raids. But South Africa, too, has been drained by constant war. Namibia alone costs South Africa $1 billion annually, some 6% of the national budget. The continuing toll of casualties has dismayed the public, and pressure from abroad for Namibia's independence has been intense. Said a senior Western diplomat: "The disincentives for continuing the war appear to exceed the incentives for carrying...
...highest rates of heart disease in the world. Last year more than a million Americans suffered heart attacks; more than half of them died as a result. Because most of the victims are in their prime productive years, mainly men in their 40s and 50s, the economic and social toll is huge, leaving aside the tragic personal waste. According to the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, deaths from heart attacks cost an estimated $60 billion in medical bills, lost wages and productivity, or more than last year's total Medicare budget...
...majority of them young men and boys, in the recent fighting, including 2,000 in one battle last week. Iran claimed to have killed 12,000 Iraqis. The shelling of civilian targets also continued: at least 100 Iranians were killed in several border towns. But last week's toll barely began to measure the human cost of the war. According to an Iranian defector who was formerly a senior official in the country's army medical corps, Iran has lost up to 400,000 troops since the Iraqis started the war in September 1980. The toll for Iran...
With its 725 million bbl. of proven and probable reserves in the continental U.S., Gulf is a particularly rich prize. But fending off Pickens for the past six months has taken its toll in employee morale. Says one insider: "There is a great deal of uncertainty, and with uncertainty has come concern...
...Organization (SWAPO) in Angola and has staged periodic raids on A.N.C. bases in Mozambique. Despite its battlefield successes, however, South Africa has been growing weary of the regional struggle, which is expected to consume some 10% of this year's national budget and has brought a mounting toll of casualties...