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Earthquake Recriminations The Japanese government's torpid response to the Jan. 17 catastrophe in Kobe (5,090 dead, 29 still missing and about 300,000 homeless) has led to intense criticism of Prime Minister Tomiichi Murayama--even from members of his own Socialist Party. Offers of assistance from 60 countries...
Such optimism remained limited, for Kobe simply will not be able to pull itself up by the bootstraps easily. The city is so important to Japanese commerce that authorities almost certainly will make heroic efforts to restore dockyards, highways and railways as soon as possible. The central government will furnish...
Another imponderable is how long it will take to restore Kobe's housing. Some 55,000 apartments and houses were wrecked. Although the government immediately began erecting 18,600 prefabricated units in school yards, construction will fall well short of present needs. Only 3% of all households in Hyogo prefecture...
Can things get worse for USAir? Today, the airline announced a $322 million loss for the fourth quarter of 1994, a year that saw twotragic USAir crashesand was marked by stubborn labor disputes. Company officials blamed much of the loss on a "dramatic dropoff" in ridership because of the crashes...
Italian President Oscar Luigi Scalfaro today ended a volatile, 22-day period of uncertainty at the top by naming the country's respected treasury minister, Lamberto Dini, as prime minister-designate to succeed flamboyant media magnate Silvio Berlusconi. The non-partisan Dini promised "a government of technocrats" to restore stability...