N.Z. Crisis Minister Grapples With Lost Miners, Quake
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Gerry Brownlee, the New Zealand minister charged with cleaning up the country’s worst earthquake in 80 years, is now grappling with a mining disaster just three months later.
“It’s pretty somber,” Brownlee, 54, said in a telephone interview yesterday. “There is no easy way into that mine to have a search about and see who might be in there.”