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Touring the stricken region by helicopter on Tuesday, Pope John Paul II visited a hospital and stopped in Balvano to comfort the grieving townspeople. "I come as a brother," the Pontiff said in his quiet, Polish-accented Italian, his white garments stained from embracing grimy survivors. "I want to tell you that you are surrounded by compassion on the part of all Christians...
Across the quake-stricken area, able-bodied survivors dug frantically with their hands in search of husbands, wives, children, parents. By night, they slept in the open, huddled together around hundreds of campfires that dotted the countryside...
...arrived little better equipped than the people they were sent to help. Eventually, shortages in the quake zone gave rise to a ghoulish black-market trade in everything from coffins to mineral water. The result was widespread bitterness, as Pertini discovered on Tuesday during an inspection tour of the stricken region. "How dare you stroll through here?" shouted a man digging through the rubble in Laviano as the immaculately dressed presidential party approached. "This is not a spectacle, you shits! My wife is down there. She has been screaming for two days...
...responsibility-and the credit-for ultimately pulling together the relief effort belonged to Giuseppe Zamberletti, 56, the government's Under Secretary for Foreign Affairs. Appointed commissioner for the stricken area on Tuesday, Zamberletti set up headquarters in Naples and immediately imposed some badgering generalship on his sprawling forces. By Friday large quantities of food, clothing and medical supplies to prevent the spread of disease were flowing into the major towns, though deliveries to the most isolated villages remained slow. The commissioner also busied himself requisitioning railroad cars and seaside tourist hotels to provide temporary shelter for the homeless...
...busing to desegregate schools in Los Angeles County. Ohio's Thomas ("Lud") Ashley, who as chairman of an ad hoc energy committee guided much of President Carter's energy program into law, was upset by Attorney Ed Weber of Toledo. But liberal Warhorse Morris Udall, 58, recently stricken by Parkinson's disease, beat back a strong challenge from a conservative real estate millionaire, Richard Huff, 54, in Arizona...