European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - February 24, 1981, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Landscape of disaster photos by Gus Schuettler Bell Tower of tree trunks at a makeshift Church near the abandoned Village it was one of the worst earthquakes to ravage Italy in nearly three thousand persons Are dead and tens of thousands Are living in often makeshift provided by the italian government and a Large International Relief the devastated which encompasses a Ellirio and part of Ortenza is larger than the state of and in the nearly 200 towns and villages lie battered and largely seventeen of these Are they have been declared unsafe Sites by experts for Riding out future the main quake on measured on the Richter and since that time hundreds of tremors of varying intensity have rocked and rattled the ruggedly mountainous the people remain edgy in Many thousands of victims lived in tents in december and january during some of the roughest Winter weather in the Region in but now nearly All Are in but More comfortable caravan some still use shelters made of Sticks and plastic sheeting in the More Remote and in the cities they live in schools and apartments taken Over by the building is booming and already a few of the victims Are moving into prefabricated but it will be late summer before everyone battered one of Many villages in Maryland sized Region of Italy devastated by will get according to carmelo governor of Avellino new Graves Are obvious throughout the the victims lie either in mass Graves near the towns or in the sobs of visitors can often be heard in Many of the destroyed villages look As though they were victims of some terrible this is particularly True at Conza Cie la Castelnuovo i Santangelo Dei Lombard and if the people of the Region have been knocked Down like never they have now picked themselves up they Are salvaging what they can and heading Down the Long Road to recovery with the kind of grit and Grace that belongs to those who live close to the Spear warlike destruction in Village of temporary shelters who knows for How burial vaults at Page 14 the stars and stripes february the stars and stripes Page 15