Young Quake Survivor Flown to West
From Reuters
STUTTGART, West Germany —
The first Armenian earthquake victim flown to the West, a 12-year-old boy, arrived Sunday in West Germany for treatment.
Tigran Petrosian, who lost most of a leg when his home collapsed on him, was accompanied by his father, West German doctors and officials aboard an air force jet from Yerevan, the Armenian capital. He was taken to a clinic in Tuebingen, near Stuttgart.
Some doctors suggested that evacuating a single casualty, at a cost of $28,000, amounted to a publicity stunt by West German politicians.
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