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Casualty counts were treated as practically state secrets. But in a week of rioting and sporadic shootings, the toll reached at least eight and possibly 18 dead, with perhaps a hundred wounded on both sides, and more than 2,000 arrested. It was a heavy cost for what began as a minor spat between the granaderos, or riot police, and prep-school students affiliated with the 90,000-student National University. As the scrap spilled into the streets, the students directed their anger toward the traditionally revered personage of Mexico's President, and seized the chance of disrupting...
...Toll. Judging from letters that continued to flood newspapers and TV stations, many around the country agreed. Most of the evidence, which continued to come in during the week, pointed the other way. The Medical Committee for Human Rights said that more than 1,000 civilians required medical treatment as a result of police action. The city report had counted...
...settled and I could see again, my house was gone. My wife and my daughters were dead." Kakhk was leveled to rubble, and 6,000 of its inhabitants died as it fell. The earthquake rumbled across the Iranian countryside, destroying 14 villages, and severely damaging another 16. The appalling toll: 10,988 dead, another 1,820 seriously injured and 91,000 homeless. For most of the week, a series of aftershocks kept the surviving population in terror. One tremor traveled 1,600 miles across Turkey to the Black Sea coast, snuffing out the lives of another 32 persons and injuring...
Washington's Patrick Murphy, 47, was criticized for not being tougher on rioters in the disturbances that followed the death of Martin Luther King. Yet Murphy's restraint not only kept down the death toll (only ten died) but also prevented a major outbreak from turning into a city-wide conflagration. In seven months, he has done more to modernize the creaky District force than previous directors did in years. Last week new guidelines were handed down to curb indiscriminate arrests for "disorderly conduct"; the President's riot panel discovered that just such arrests sparked many...
...Canadian project is still losing money. The seaway has failed to generate enough revenue to retire its bonds on schedule and has even fallen behind on interest payments due the two governments. And every week that the strike continues, the two countries lose $700,000 in lock fees and toll revenues...