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Cost at War To attempt to measure the costs of war is to handle the quicksilver of suffering with clumsy fingers. Although much of the toll is beyond quantifying, some reckoning is possible. The Library of Congress has just completed a study for the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that provides a partial accounting of Viet Nam expenditures...
...human toll is, of course, more staggering. Through the February 1971 cutoff date of the study, 53,915 Americans died in Viet Nam-44,610 of them killed in combat-and 149,154 were wounded seriously enough to be hospitalized. The study reports that 472,013, or 2.6% of the total population of South Viet Nam, have been killed or seriously wounded while serving in South Viet Nam's armed forces. Going by the U.S. "body count" figures, the number of Viet Cong and North Vietnamese soldiers killed (714,984) equals 3.45% of the population of North Viet...
...convinced that the attack did indeed occur, Commissioner Frank Felicetta, an up-from-the-ranks hardliner, ordered his men to muster for the lineups more than a year ago. They refused, and unsuccessfully fought the order all the way up to the Supreme Court. The delay took its toll. At least three cops said to have been elsewhere during the incident were reportedly among the ten identified by the witness victims. That may well undermine the other identifications, which are to be used only in departmental disciplinary proceedings. No cop is likely to come to trial because such a broad...
...capital of Santiago itself was not heavy. But next morning, when President Salvador Allende Gossens flew to the agricultural regions of Illapel and Salamanca, he was stunned. "It was dreadful," he said of the scene in Hierro Viejo (pop. 5,000), where virtually every building had been destroyed. The toll: at least 90 persons killed, 250 injured and 15,000 left homeless...
...Golden Gate Bridge was opened in 1937 after years of haggling with San Francisco Bay ferryboat owners and skeptics who said that it could not be done. At first, traffic was so light that some toll collectors on the graveyard shift set garbage-can lids in the approach lanes to warn themselves of oncoming vehicles. But business soon picked up, and now runs to 33 million vehicles a year. The bridge has attracted more than cars. It gained an unfortunate reputation as one of America's most melodramatic suicide sites. Last week a 65-year-old woman became...