'Crises Cloud China's Olympic Mood as Quake Tests Party's Mettle'

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/05/16/AR2008051603482_pf.html

"...some villagers had begun to complain that rescue officials were
bulldozing ruins with people still trapped under debris. In several
towns where children were killed when schools collapsed, parents
accused local officials of allowing shoddy construction materials to
be used in return for bribes. And the Health Ministry in Beijing
handed down orders to dispose of bodies swiftly and on the spot to
prevent disease."