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Great Losses. With such scenes of shock and terror began what could prove to be the world's worst earthquake since 1556, when a massive tremor killed more than 800,000 people in China's Shensi province. Last week the first and worst tremor reached 8.2 on the Richter scale, the most powerful recorded anywhere since 1964, when a quake registering 8.4 hit Alaska. The first tremor was followed 16 hours later by a second shock, which measured 7.9. The two quakes ripped the earth, crumpled dams and toppled buildings across one of China's most populous...
...telling precisely where, when or how badly. After the disaster, Professor Raffaele Bendandi of the Faenza Geophysical Laboratory reported that seven or eight days before "the ground in northeastern Italy rose by 7.75 in., according to our instruments. This was a sign that we could expect some sort of tremor." The area along the Tagliamento is earthquake country of a sort. At the Geophysical and Astronomical Observatory in Monteporzio, Scientist Mariacecilia Spadea had already measured 20 or 30 minor shocks there this year. But, she said, "there was no history of severe earthquakes there in this century. It would have...
...kamikaze (divine wind) attack was yet another tremor in the continuing Lockheed shokku. Prime Minister Takeo Miki has been under heavy fire in the Diet, where his Liberal Democrats hold a steadily shrinking majority, for striking a deal with the U.S. Government that seemed aimed at containing further revelations about the scandal. Opposition parties are particularly angry at two conditions Miki accepted. Information resulting from U.S. investigations of the Lockheed affair will henceforth be passed confidentially to Japanese law agencies, and no names will be revealed publicly unless sufficient evidence is found for indictments...
...case of Schuyler's creator, the two may in fact be one and the same. For despite his advanced years and portly figure, the tremor in his right hand, rheumatic shoulder and incipient cataracts, Charlie bears an uncanny resemblance to Gore. If proof were needed of this connection, Vidal teasingly provides it. At one point in 7576, Schuyler meets "a most sensitive, wide-eyed, rather plump young man from, I think, Boston." Though Schuyler does not give his name, he is clearly Henry James. The young writer promises to send Schuyler his newly issued first novel (James himself...
Cooked Beans. Surveys indicated that the tremor had devastated a tragic triangle of 2,700 sq. mi., extending from Siquinalá in the south and Gualán in the northeast, above the so-called Motagua Fault (see box). Even as dazed survivors stumbled out of the wreckage of 40 towns and villages, massive aid appeared. The first relief came from Guatemalans whose towns had been spared and who reached out to help. In the highlands village of Patzún, which had been almost totally leveled, a truck bearing tortillas and beans appeared; it had been sent from...