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...horrors of addiction have hit Detroit, once relatively heroin-free, with a force beyond the usual tragic toll of broken lives and deaths by overdose. Since last August, there has raged an all-out war for control of the booming $350 million drug market. So far this year, it has claimed 40 lives, an average of one every four days. The dead: penny-ante pushers and some major dealers grabbing for a larger piece of the action and killed by their peers...
...monsoon has traditionally brought a welcome respite to Indochina's battlefields. On the U.S. side, a slowdown in activity was already evident at the beginning of the month as the withdrawal proceeded; in the week ending June 5, American fatalities fell to 19, the lowest seven-day toll since October 1965. Yet U.S. officials in Saigon are particularly concerned as the monsoon season begins this year. In selected areas, Communist troops are not only maintaining the pressure but, despite the rains, seem intent on increasing...
When the death toll out in Yuba City, California, surpassed the magic number 16 (held by sniper Charles Whitman, Austin, Texas) two weeks ago, some Harvard seniors were so thrilled they nearly threw a party. This was an event! If the toll passes 30, there may be fireworks in the Square...
...left to Mexico City's hospitals and medical centers to pick up the pieces. While a city newspaper put the death toll at eight this afternoon, the unofficial count, which had it at 25, seemed more reliable in view of government efforts to minimize the number and the intensity of the fighting itself. Over a hundred persons were treated for wounds and many of the several hundred people held by police were said to be seriously injured...
...truck carrying the shell had stopped at a toll booth when another truck slammed into its rear. While the shell was rendered useless, the riggings for the boat are intact and will be moved to another Stempfly being borrowed from Princeton...