The Iraqis told the Americans they had taken off their uniforms and wanted to surrender because they did not want to die for Saddam Hussein, reported a CNN correspondent who saw the incident.

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The Iraqis told the Americans they had taken off their uniforms and wanted to surrender because they did not want to die for Iraqi President Saddam Hussein, reported CNN's Christiane Amanpour, who witnessed the incident.

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That is because about a quarter of these people would be expected to die from cancer even had they not been exposed to Chernobyl's radiation.

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"We believe that adults subsist for two to three weeks on the last feedings they had as juveniles and then die, hopefully after they have reproduced, " Sikkel said.

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When Elizabeth (Betsy) McCaughey was lieutenant governor of New York in the 1990s, forging a combative reputation for clashing with Governor George Pataki and her own party, she kept hearing from bereaved constituents whose loved ones had entered the hospital for treatment, only to die from infections they got there.

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Many older people, who typically die during outbreaks of flu, were protected as they had been exposed to the virus decades before.

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