Word: tyrrhenian
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last week a 700-page reconstruction by an investigating magistrate pointed to another culprit: an air-to-air military missile. The evidence, as reported by the Italian press: the fuselage and several bodies recovered from the bottom of the Tyrrhenian Sea showed traces of a chemical used solely in high- powered missiles...
...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. In all, 179 communities suffered at least some damage, and 310,000 people were made homeless. General Antonio Tamburino, military commander...