21. Both overwhelmingly supported using the United Nations to help settle international disputes and felt the American public would not tolerate large numbers of casualties in military operations. 22. A day later, Spanish troops killed two of the Marines, the first U.S. casualties in the conflict. 23. A century later, as many as a third of U.S. casualties in Vietnam were caused by mines, many of them U.S.-made. 24. A lemon tree, which yielded eye-catching fruit last year, is just one casualty in a pitifully denuded rooftop forest. 25. A Radio Liberty newsman, Andrei Babitsky, reported all too accurately about continued Russian casualties in Chechnya. 26. Accounts of the casualties in the Panay incident differ. 27. After four Angels had already struck out looking, Phillips became the fifth casualty in the fifth. 28. British Muslim leaders gave Tony Blair a stark warning Thursday not to incur any civilian casualties in Afghanistan and urged him to increase massively humanitarian aid to the region. 29. Brown is the latest casualty in the muni bond business, which has been hurt by fewer bond sales and shrinking profit margins. 30. But all too soon the confusion and casualties in Somalia and Bosnia underlined the limits of U.N. peacekeeping. |