Word: ashe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sort of mini-Dunkirk, fishing boats transported most of the island's inhabitants to the mainland, where buses took them into Reykjavik. Hospital patients and the elderly were rescued by small planes and helicopters, which braved intense heat and volcanic ash to land at an airstrip only 200 yds. from the eruption. Within 3½ hours, everyone on Heimaey had been evacuated. About 200 police, firemen and rescue workers stayed behind to salvage what they could of Vestmannaey-jar, the island's only town and Iceland's most important fishing center. Miraculously, there were no casualties...
...week, prospects that the islanders could return any time soon looked dim. Geologists said that there was a possibility that the island - which is only 2½ miles wide by 4½ miles long-could explode and disappear entirely. Another possibility is that it may be covered by poisonous ash, which on some streets has already reached the tops of telephone poles...
Late last week TIME Correspondent Christopher Byron flew over the island and described this scene: "At a distance of 50 miles, the inky horizon shimmered with an eerie red glow. At a distance of five miles, fly ash and stones peppered the plane's cockpit, making the sort of sound one hears when driving through a swarm of locusts. As we came still closer, fountains of flaming rock hurled up past us in the night, reaching heights twice that of the Empire State Building. The night turned from black to red, and the air smelled like sulfuric fumes from...
...flushed, this specially refined mineral oil and wastes go into a separator tank. There, urine and solids sink to the bottom, then are sent to a holding tank, where they are eventually burned in an almost pollution-free, 1200° F. incinerator that leaves a residue of sterile ash. The oil itself is filtered, chlorinated and returned odorless to the toilet tank to be used again. And again. Over a year, just 5% of the mineral oil is lost in the process...
Wary. Of more concern is a possible conflict of interest, since Litton is presently at loggerheads with the Navy because of cost overruns amounting to $547 million. Last week a congressional hearing made the point that Ash had gone to the Pentagon in June to ask for a bail-out similar to Lockheed's Government-guaranteed loan. Ash argues that contracts are handled by the Navy, not by the OMB Director, but any contracts as big as Litton's are bound to affect the budget. If a proposal came up to bail out Litton, Ash would find himself...