Monday, Apr. 23, 2001

Numbers

By Kathleen Adams, Ann Marie Bonardi, Mitch Frank, Randy Hartwell, Benjamin Nugent, Joseph Pierro and Sora Song

$894,880 Total income of President George W. Bush and wife Laura last year, as reported on income tax documents released last week

$36 MILLION Income of Vice President Dick Cheney and wife Lynne

591 American service members formerly listed as unaccounted for whose remains have been identified and returned to their families since the end of the Vietnam War

$6 MILLION Amount spent each year by the U.S. on recovery operations in Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia

1,992 Americans still missing in action in Southeast Asia, including 1,498 in Vietnam

$1,146 Cost of deluxe accommodations offered by one company to reporters covering Timothy McVeigh's execution--including chilled bottled water and transportation around prison grounds by golf cart

1,400 Reporters requesting press credentials to cover the execution

$20 Allowance for McVeigh's final meal

Sources: New York Times (2); Washington Post (2); Los Angeles Times and USA Today