1. Casualty estimates at the time for U.S. service personnel ranged as high as one million killed or wounded. 2. Even in the case of a Kobe-style quake beneath Tokyo, the devastation experts say they expect seems difficult to square with official damage and casualty estimates. 3. Even the most optimistically low casualty estimates were well into the tens of thousands. 4. In the midst of the uncertainty, Chavez urged news organizations Monday to exercise added caution with casualty estimates. 5. It is impossible to verify the casualty estimates. 6. Pentagon officials are reluctant to discuss American casualty estimates. 7. Rescuers battled not only the fire and smoke but sub-zero temperatures to pull survivors from the rubble, making precise casualty estimates all but impossible. 8. The casualty estimates are conservative. 9. The casualty estimates in Nablus continued to rise through the night as emergency workers extracted bodies from the rubble of a police post and adjacent prison. 10. The document, provided to The New York Times by a military officer, included a satellite photograph, a casualty estimate and a description of the site. |