Word: salerno
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...peace alliance is a member of an unmbrella organization including groups from MIT, Boston College, and Northeastern University, coalition chairman Rosaria Salerno said yesterday. She added that the organization hopes to buy an ad in the New York Times or the Boston Globe...
Thousands of rooms in hotels along the Amalfi coast from Naples to Salerno had been requisitioned for the survivors. But the townsfolk of Calitri remained unimpressed. They listened politely to the captain's arguments. Then an old man replied, "You are a good and capable man, but don't come here again. It would be better for your sake. This is where we live, and this is where we want to die." The buses departed empty...
...first shock, which measured 6.8 on the Richter scale, hit in the early evening as most of the country was sitting down to Sunday supper. Thirty-three smaller tremors followed during the night, ranging in intensity from 3.5 to 4.5 (see SCIENCE). From its epicenter at Eboli, near Salerno, the terremoto radiated its destruction through the regions of Campania and Basilicata, a rugged belt of parsimonious countryside between the Apennines and the Tyrrhenian Sea on the ankle of the Italian boot. Though it struck the major cities in its path, the quake concentrated with cruel efficiency on impoverished rural villages...
Worst hit were the provinces of Naples, Salerno, Potenza and Avellino. Government officials said yesterday ancient buildings suffered the most damage...
Bloch agreed that past events had already damaged many of the region's art treasures. In 1944, the American army "started their invasion of Italy in Salerno," Bloch said, adding that "mankind has done more to destroy irreplaceable art than any natural disaster...