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...citizens of that embattled and bloody anachronism-known to its Protestant majority as Ulster and to its Catholic minority as "the Six Counties" -could thank their separate but equal gods that the toll had been no greater than...
...Conceivably his tabulations could be close to the truth, though most Sinologists doubt it. Mao himself once guessed that 800,000 died during the land seizures of 1949-52, which saw the last mass executions known to have occurred in China. But Sinologist Stuart Schram reckons that the true toll might have run as high as 3,000,000. How many Chinese have been executed, starved or otherwise killed during the years of turmoil since the regime triumphed in 1949? Columbia University China Expert Donald Klein places the total as low as 2,000,000; others...
...desire to shuck the formal, gaudy pastimes of old in favor of a more casual lifestyle. While stars who once made a million dollars a year are now frequently making less than half that, they are hardly hurting for a meal. But the economic crunch has taken its toll. Discotheques are closing, servants are being let go, and psychiatrists have more leisure time. Private jets and yachts are up for grabs. Hostesses are turning from expensive fresh-flower arrangements to polished fruit to adorn their tables...
...vaccination and reduced the cholera threat, but camp health officials have already counted about 5,000 dead, and an estimated 35,000 have been stricken by the convulsive vomiting and diarrhea that accompany the disease. Now officials fear that pneumonia, diphtheria and tuberculosis will also begin to exact a toll among the weakened ref ugees. Says one doctor: "The people are not even crying any more...
Estimates of the death toll in the army crackdown range from 200,000 all the way up to a million. The lower figure is more widely accepted, but the number may never be known. For one thing, countless corpses have been dumped in rivers, wells and mass graves. For another, statistics from East Pakistan are even more unreliable than statistics from most other places (see TIME Essay). That is inevitable in a place where, before the refugee exodus began, 78 million people, 80% of them illiterate, were packed into an area no larger than Florida...