Word: bolognesi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...after the quake, President Velasco sailed into Chimbote aboard the navy cruiser Coronel Bolognesi to survey the destruction. Velasco, an army general who seized power in 1968, and had just begun to check inflation and whittle down the budget deficit when the disaster struck, ordered $16 million set aside for relief and reconstruction. A dozen other countries rushed aid-including the U.S., which sent the helicopter carrier Guam, despite Washington's displeasure with Velasco for his seizure of a U.S.-owned oil company. It will take vast sums to repair the effects of a catastrophe that has left...