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...Last week the Pentagon announced the final toll of the Beirut bombing: 218 Marines, 18 Navy men and three Army soldiers dead...
Injuries and losing records have taken their toll on him. "There have been a lot of firsts." Giella says of this year in particular, "like the first time Columbia has won in the Yale Bowl since I was born and the first time Brown has won since I was born. That's pretty hard for me to take...
...final American toll was put at 18 killed, 91 wounded. The Pentagon said it had no estimate of Cubans killed or wounded. There was no estimate either of civilian deaths, except for the probability of perhaps 20 at the mental hospital. Nor was there a count of casualties among the Grenadian soldiers. The Pentagon's vagueness on non-U.S. casualties led to suspicions, perhaps unfairly, that it was minimizing their extent...
...then snow began to fall, Kamkas, sat through the night beside the rubble that had been his home. "All day long, we tried to find our families," he later recalled. "And all night long, we stayed with our dead." Throughout his desolate farming village of Muratbagi last week, the toll of dead, mostly women and children who were still indoors after the men left to work in the fields, continued to mount. The earthquake killed more than half of the village's 980 inhabitants, reducing the settlement to a heap of lonely rocks on the hillside...
...week's devastation was, however, tragically familiar to the villages that lie along the East Anatolian Fault. More than 20,000 people perished after one momentous jolt in 1939, and two quakes in the past decade each left more than 2,000 dead. One reason for the terrible toll: the walls of peasant homes are typically made of rough stones held together with a mixture of mud and straw, while their roofs consist of layers of soil as much as four feet thick. When the earth rumbles, the rocks come loose and the roof collapses. Anyone inside is buried...