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WORLD Quake Toll Lowered Although initial reports put the death toll for last month's earthquake in southwestern India at 28,000, the count has been lowered to around 10,000. Critics say authorities are deliberately undercounting to reduce the amount of compensation to victims...
...negotiations ourselves. No outsiders.'' Maintaining the secret became easier once the Paramount bidding war broke out in September and grabbed the attention of Wall Street and the media. Like Malone, Smith views the Paramount fight as a side issue. He envisions the new Bell Atlantic more as a toll taker on the electronic highway than as a provider of entertainment and information. ''What we're looking for are arrangements with programmers to use our platform,'' says Smith. His ''platform'' is basically the highway itself, which will generate revenues for Bell Atlantic in the form of subscriber fees. Thus Paramount...
...future as sketched last week by the Public Health Service is downright scary. A PHS conference of experts on the disease speculated that AIDS will multiply more than ten times by the end of 1991, the caseload rising from 21,517 known cases to 270,000, the death toll from the 11,713 so far to 179,000. Increasingly, AIDS will afflict heterosexuals, and it will spread fast outside of such hard- hit cities as San Francisco and New York. An estimated 1 million to 1.5 million Americans have been exposed to the AIDS virus...
...shift to electric cars. But Gore's message was subtly different this time. The man who has in the past called climate change a "moral and spiritual challenge" sounded more pragmatic notes. While sounding the alarm on melting Arctic ice and strange weather, Gore also emphasized the financial toll that high gasoline prices were taking on average Americans, and the security threat posed by our increased dependence on foreign...
...suicide bombing outside the Indian embassy on July 7 killed 40 and injured over 100. Many of these assaults are planned and supported from safe havens across the border in the tribal areas of Pakistan. Western troop casualties are climbing; the last two months exceeded the monthly death toll in Iraq. On July 13, nine U.S. soldiers were killed when Taliban fighters swarmed over their base in the eastern province of Kunar - the worst attack in three years...