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...week's end, as the chances of finding more survivors faded, the grim toll stood at 40 dead, 83 missing and presumed dead, and 89 rescued. Said an incredulous Captain Kjetil Hauge, whose crew had been relieved only hours before the catastrophe: "I was horrified and shocked. I had been convinced that something like this could not happen. Not with that...
...state has set up a toll-free telephone hot line for reporting manatee death, injury or harassment. Billboards and bumper stickers are in evidence, proclaiming the manatee the "Endangered Floridian." But the battle is far from won. Warns University of Miami Marine Biologist Daniel Odell: "The manatees are sitting targets for everything, and it will take a major effort to preserve them...
Viorst sees students pitying themselves, when perhaps they were just looking out the window, reading the newspapers, opening letters from the Selective Service, watching the death toll on the nightly news. They did not live in a campus vacuum, and too many students today know the terror of being 22 years old and leaving a sombre campus with nothing to do in the world...
...chunky Muhammad Ali. The stomach muscles that withstood the barrages of Floyd Patterson, Sonny Liston, Joe Frazier and George Foreman now hang over his belt. The face which had never been cut, unmarked all these years, was split open in a sparring session last week. Time has taken its toll...
...campaign looked, it was still peace by Rhodesian standards: the average daily death toll was seven-down from 40 before the settlement. Privately, many black nationalists admitted that Soames' firmness had helped hold the cease-fire on course. But Soames has also been severely criticized by the nationalists and their African sympathizers for his seeming partiality toward the white Rhodesians, whom he has allowed to control the country's civil service, government apparatus, security forces and pro-Muzorewa auxiliaries...