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     CHARLOTTETOWN,  l. " DECEMBER '12., 1969 
     
    
   
   
    
     ‘ In the last 5,500 yea-rs, there have been 
     
     14,531 wars, for an average of 3.18“ wars 
     
     ayear. In the last 20' years, the frequency 
     
    
   
   
    
     has increased to 5.2 a. year. 
     
    
   
   
    
       
     
    
   
   
    
     In the first world war, 95 percent of the -fa:tal 
     
     casualties were members of the armed forces. In the 
     
     second world war, 56 percent , were from the ' armed 
     
    

    
     ~ forces. In the Korean war, 88 percent. of» ithe fatal 
     
     : casualties were civilian. To date in Vietnam, 
     
    
   
   
    
     91 percent of the dead have been civilian.