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Private Scores. The week-long rioting had taken a fearful toll: at least 176 dead (all but two of them black) and 1,139 injured. Another 1,298 blacks were arrested, and property damage was estimated at $40 million. Police sought to blame many of the casualties on black tsotsis (hooligans), who undoubtedly did seize on the disorders to settle some private scores, but most observers considered the police claims highly exaggerated. Said one white eyewitness who was in Soweto last week: "It was obvious that the police weren't there to practice crowd control but to kill...
...front of the bus," sobbed Kim Kenyon, a 16-year-old junior whose girl friend was killed in the seat beside him. Added Perry Martin, 18, the choir's chief tenor: "Everything was a tangle of weeping and moaning and of scattered arms and legs." The final toll: 29 dead, including Mrs. Estabrook, whose husband was preceding the bus in his car, and 25 injured, including Driver Evan Prothero...
...rescue duty. Shortly before 5 a.m., as first light began to break, Italian and U.S. helicopters joined forces to fly out the injured. At week's end, as strong new tremors hit the area, the rescuers were still hauling corpses out of the rubble and the death toll seemed certain to go much higher...
Without such a faith, however, the awful attraction to violence and degradation eventually took its toll on Lawrence. He became acutely conscious of how he was "using" the Arabs to live out personal dreams and to fight his fear of death. Ultimately, Lawrence could not endure the central psycho-social fact that no matter how diligently man serves humanity, he inevitably serves himself in doing so. Lawrence, more than anyone, would feel uneasy about the psycho-historical movement; in his later life, he often prayed and pleaded to be free of his mainly self-analytical insights...
...carnage as usual in Beirut last week as Lebanon's 25th cease-fire in a year began with shelling, sniping and an opening-day death toll of 110. Moslem leftists advanced on the Christian-held port quarter of the capital by blowing a passage through already battle-scarred buildings, rather than moving through the streets. The city's international airport, under Moslem control, became a target for the first time when a dozen mortar rounds crashed into a hangar area, wounding seven and setting a Boeing 707 freighter on fire. Hopes were briefly raised when units of Syrian...