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...Syrian force in the area returned the fire and forced the vessels to retreat in the fourth straight day of fighting. After yesterday's exchange, police reported that the casualty toll had reached 1000 killed and 1700 wounded after eight months of battles for control of Lebanon...
...heavy artillery, mortar and rocket barrages, mostly from Syrian guns, are responsible for the high civilian casualty toll, experts said...
...people, as many as 15,000 had perished in 90 horrifying seconds. Of 100 smaller villages scattered in a radius of about 60 miles, at least 40 had been leveled and an additional 10,000 lives lost. It was the world's worst earthquake of 1978. The toll of death and destruction was Iran's most calamitous since 1968, when an earthquake centered at Kakhk, 110 miles northeast of Tabas on the same geological belt, killed 12,000 people...
...sand traps took their toll. Thad McNulty was running even with Meyer until after he negotiated Cemetery Hill. "He'd given it all he had, and just died--almost literally," said manager Jonathan Currier. "We had to go up the hill...
...poured into the basement. Trained police sharpshooters aimed at the house. Suddenly, someone fired a shot and the battle began. Policemen and firemen fell to the ground--some wounded, some trying to avoid bullets, one dead. After minutes of gunfire, the bedlam suddenly ceased, MOVE surrendered. But the toll was heavy: one police officer dead; about 18 policemen and firemen injured, many of them seriously; two MOVE members injured; and three MOVE sympathizers injured. It was the first political shoot-out in America in quite a while...