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...Martinique on May 8, 1902, a huge cloud of steam and volcanic dust killed 30,000 people, leaving a solitary prisoner in an underground dungeon as the only survivor. So when the long-dormant La Soufriere volcano on nearby Guadeloupe, a French territory, recently began rumbling and belching ash and gases, authorities ordered the immediate evacuation of more than 72,000 residents from towns and villages in the vicinity of the 4,812-ft. volcano. TIME Correspondent Bernard Diederich flew to the island and ventured up to the crater. His report...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Under the Volcano | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...toxic gases, projectiles and landslides. But over the years islanders have built their houses amid the rain forests on the mountain's flanks. As a retired clerical worker from Basse-Terre put it: "We did not fear it." When the volcano suddenly began spewing out a fine volcanic ash two weeks ago, officials decided it was time...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: Under the Volcano | 8/30/1976 | See Source »

...Sung, piano and Mitch Ash, tenor appear in a concert of songs in English and German. Adams House Lower Common Room...

Author: By Judy Kogan, | Title: Music | 5/13/1976 | See Source »

Birch and Evergreens. Humphrey's illness reordered his life. He looks out over his four acres of waterfront land, dotted with birch and ash and evergreens that he planted as long as 20 years ago. His four children all live within 50 miles. "Why does a man stay in politics?" Humphrey asks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Humphrey: How to Succeed Without Really Trying | 1/19/1976 | See Source »

...leading counterblasting outfits, GASP (for Group Against Smokers' Pollution) and ASH (Action on Smoking and Health), as well as such organizations as the American Cancer Society and the American Heart Association, have had some impressive successes: largely as the result of their campaigns, 31 states and scores of cities in the U.S. have passed a wide range of laws that prohibit smoking in places as varied as elevators, museums, hospitals, theaters, stores, buses and subways. Now, however, the antismokers seem bent on controlling all public "breathing space." In offices and waiting rooms, desk plaques admonish...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: SMOKING: FIGHTING FIRE WITH IRE | 1/12/1976 | See Source »

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