Word: valdivia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILE Volunteer nurses will teach formally and on the wards, at hospitals in Valdivia and Tesmuca. Lab technicians will train co-workers in their field hospitals in Valdivia and Antofagesta. Community health educators will work in Valdivia and Temuco and in rural areas doing community development. Hospital administrators will train Chileans to administer new hosptials being built Therapists will teach the clinical practice segment of the OT school at the Rehabilitation Center of the Health Service...
Seawall in the Street. North of the seaport of Valparaiso, two hills suddenly collapsed into mud, trapping a 700-passenger train between them. At Vina del Mar, seaside playground of rich Chileans, boiling waves hurled huge boulders from the seawall into the streets. Farther south near Valdivia, the naval ocean-going tug Janequeo was dashed against rocks and sank; 43 of 72 crewmen died...
...calm did not come. One day a landslide caused by heavy rains killed 18 people near the city of Valdivia, hard hit by last month's earthquakes. That night a jolt measuring 7.25 on the Richter scale (which counts any jolt over 7 as a major one) shook southern Chile. Next day a new tremor ten miles north of Valdivia set off another landslide, killing two more people. The following day two heavy quakes struck Concepcion, Chile's third city and top industrial center. And at week's end walls collapsed and women screamed hysterically in Valparaiso...
...government of President Jorge Alessandri counts heavily on foreign aid, does not intend to levy emergency taxes on foreign companies, Chilean corporations or the Chilean rich. And foreign aid is pouring in. West Germany has offered to rebuild Valdivia; Argentina will aid Chiloé Island; Sweden will help Puerto Saavedra. The U.S. has given most of all. The Export-Import Bank of Washington has lent $10,770,000. Private citizens have donated $5,000,000, and President Eisenhower last week approved a $20 million gift as the "first step" of a broad aid program to Chile's homeless...
...food. Fifty-four U.S. Air Force transport planes airlifted two 400-bed Army field hospitals, lugged relief supplies to shattered towns and cities inside the earthquake region. The first shipments of help only scratched the surface of the need. When a trainload of refugees pulled out of half-destroyed Valdivia, those left behind called after it: "We are hungry! Please send us bread and milk!" At week's end, as hunger grew deeper, desperate men fought with knives for chunks of bread, and troops were forced to fire in the air to keep food lines from rioting...