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...Tragic Toll...
...This tragic toll of injury and death will continue as long as research focuses on the vehicle only and neglects the driver," he said. "Physicians have thus far paid little attention to what is undoubtedly the most significant causal factor of all-the psychological...
...casualties in the twelve days of fighting had actually been light. The guerrillas claimed that 25,000 people were killed. Hussein said his army had lost 200 men, while in Amman his government put civilian casualties at 541. U.S. estimates place the dead at perhaps 2,000-a terrible toll in a country...
...compensation for Chinese economic primacy. This balance was shattered when the Chinese made significant inroads into the Malays' political strength in the 1969 parliamentary elections. Soon afterward, Malay mobs burned vehicles, houses and shops in predominantly Chinese areas of tense Kuala Lumpur; unofficial estimates put the death toll at more than...
...years have taken their toll, and the strain shows in Cushing's craggy, furrowed face. He suffers from asthma, emphysema, ulcers and cancer. As the longtime spiritual adviser of the Kennedy family, he has been devastated by their tragedies. "It seems that all my troubles have come in the autumn of my life,'' he lamented after Joe Kennedy's death. "I now feel alone and abandoned." Appropriately enough, one of the most moving tributes upon the cardinal's resignation came from Senator Edward Kennedy, speaking on behalf of the family: "For three-quarters...