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...Bernardino County, the area hardest hit by the flames. Started by arson, the fire storm burned down the hillsides into the San Bernardino suburbs, then back up through Waterman Canyon. In affluent North Park, a roaring wall of flame incinerated whole blocks of expensive houses, leaving nothing but ashen rectangles and soot-covered swimming pools. Four died: an elderly couple who perished as they tried to save a pet, and two other people who died of heart attacks. Some 7,000 fire fighters were struggling to contain the flames, sometimes battling winds gusting up to 90 m.p.h. At week...
Indeed there was. At that very moment, NBC Correspondent Chris Wallace was walking between the New York and Pennsylvania delegations. He recalled afterward: "One of Reagan's regional political directors came careening down the aisle, ashen-faced, shouting, 'It's Bush! It's Bush!'" Wallace turned to a second source for confirmation and put the story on the air without waiting for a camera...
...into foot-deep mud. Chill winds knife into your spine. Ash floats in the air, killing your sense of smell. Every instinct, every emotion warns you to go away. I felt like we were trespassing, like we didn't have nature's permission to visit its ashen graves...
...mountain, the eruption blasted twelve miles of the once pristine north fork of the Toutle River into a lifeless moonscape. Herds of black-tailed deer, bobcats and cougars used to swarm through the valley's hemlock and Douglas fir; elk still wandered in hopeless confusion through the ashen desolation. The river and its source, Spirit Lake, once teemed with steelhead trout and Chinook salmon. All were destroyed by the eruption. TIME Correspondent Paul Witteman was one of the first journalists to see the area by helicopter after the blast. His report...
When Jimmy Carter went on television at 7 a.m., Friday, to announce the most surprising event of his presidency, his face was ashen, his mood was grim, but he was unshaken in his determination to press on to secure the release of the hostages, whose six months of captivity have left Carter and his White House aides somehow captives too. Like John Kennedy after the Bay of Pigs, Carter gamely took full blame for the rescue mission's failure. Said he: "It was my decision to attempt the rescue operation. It was my decision to cancel it when problems developed...