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...young police captain led a convoy of buses into the mountainside hamlet of Calitri, 65 miles east of Naples, one day last week. The captain's mission: to persuade the 3,400 villagers of Calitri, camped beside the wreckage of their homes after the country's most devastating earthquake in 65 years, to accept temporary shelter elsewhere. His convoy was part of Plan S, a vast effort by the Italian government to evacuate the 234,000 people left homeless by the quake...
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...