A bulldozer at work on a building site in the valley of Piave,below the remains of Pirago, part of Longarone, the cityalmost completely destroyed by the freak wave of Vajont, two yearsago, when 2,000 people from Longarone were killed; the financing forthe reconstruction has been blocked for some time by bureaucraticobstacles and the local Demo-Christian administration has recentlyformulated a new and modified regulatory plan. Longarone (Belluno),November 1965