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...teams to the mountain hamlets. The necessary soldiers, firemen, medical supplies and heavy equipment had to be trucked in from military bases hundreds of miles to the north. "Beyond question, there have been serious official shortcomings," President Sandro Pertini charged during a grim, surprisingly outspoken address on television at midweek. "Those guilty of these failures must be made...
...rescue operation finally moved into high gear at midweek, with 33,000 workers deployed throughout the disaster region. Using specially trained German shepherd dogs and directional microphones lowered into cavities in the rubble, they were still rinding survivors in the wreckage. On Friday three people, including a six-month-old infant in Lioni, were rescued after more than five days of entrapment. Earlier, workers sifting through the ruined hospital at Sant' Angelo de' Lombardi found three babies still alive. Among them was Carmencita Antoniello, born prematurely just five days before the quake. She had been trapped...
...seems to be setting a record for the number of jobs anyone is being tipped for (Secretary of State, Treasury or Defense; Director of the Office of Management and Budget). Simon and Weinberger excused themselves and stood obediently outside the room while their qualifications were being debated. At midweek, the group sent to Reagan in Washington a list of some 70 names, a minimum of four for each of the ten Cabinet posts...
...hour and his wife attended services at the Bel Air Presbyterian Church and then went into seclusion. The President-elect spent the week riding, chopping wood and relaxing with Nancy on their California ranch. But from midweek on, Ronald Reagan's emissaries streamed into Washington, packing the "redeye" overnight flights from the West Coast. Said one adviser: "A lot of tired people are trying to get things going." They faced one of the most intricate tasks in democratic government: arranging a transfer of power from a defeated Administration to an incoming regime vastly different in philosophy, policies...
...midweek, French police announced that they had reconstructed a Suzuki motorbike on which the bomb presumably had been strapped; the owner, Alexander Panaryu, believed to be a Cypriot, was being sought for questioning. And by then, the unity and earnest soul searching that followed the tragedy had given way to confusion and recrimination...