From Princeton University's Student newspaper:

BALKAN STATS II
--Estimated number of persons killed in Iraq due to American-led sanctions:
over 1,000,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in the Sudan over the past 15 years:
1,500,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Rwanda over the last five years:
500,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Chechnya: 80,000
--Estimated number of people dying each day around the world because of lack of water, clothing, shelter, food or medicine: 100,000
--Estimated number of people in the world who go to bed hungry: 800,000,000
--Estimated number of persons killed in Kosovo last year: 2,000

BALKAN STATS III
--Estimate of new households watching CNN thanks to its war coverage: 472,000

BALKAN STATS IV
--Cost of America's 21 B-2 bombers: $42 billion --Value of Yugoslavian GDP: $43 billion --UN budget as a percentage of the Pentagon budget: 5%


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Faculty of Education
University of Newcastle
NSW. 2308. Australia.


Date: Thu, 22 Apr 1999 09:08:47 -0500
To: worldlst@rednet.org (World List for Rednet) From: Scott Marshall <scott@rednet.org> Subject: interesting statistics

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