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They put the combined Lebanese and Palestinian death toll in Israeli-controlled territory at 3,000 to 5,000, and the total number of homeless...
...exorbitant toll of the war will soon begin to hit consumers in their pocketbooks. The government has instituted emergency measures that include increasing the costs of fuel and food prices from 12% to 19%, raising value-added sales taxes from 12% to 15% and placing an additional 2% tax on stock and bond sales. The government is also levying a $26 charge on people traveling overseas...
...International Committee of the Red Cross, which is distributing medical supplies in Lebanon, called these estimates "much exaggerated." By Red Cross reckoning, about 300,000 civilian refugees had been displaced in southern Lebanon, the majority eventually returning to their homes in Israeli-occupied territory. Whatever the exact figures, the toll in human suffering was shockingly high...
...Falklands took its toll too: the Maracaibo Symphony from Venezuela, a country that was angry at U.S. support of Britain, abruptly withdrew...
...Secretary Nott somberly refused to disclose to the House of Commons the number of casualties on the ground that the information "could be of assistance to the enemy." Finally, British officials privately disclosed that 60 men had died and 120 were wounded, which would bring the war's toll to some 195 British and 670 Argentine dead...