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...charges, Abersten and his associates devised an ingenious protective system. It called for installation of four rows of steel tubes in the west side of the old lava wall (lava from the eruption was moving along the wall's east side). Each of the metal tubes contained three channels. One channel was filled with dynamite and water. To keep the explosives cool, air was pumped into the second channel and water into the third...
...site. A military bugler tooted a few short notes. Then came the first blast, shaking nearby sandbagged bunkers, where dozens of journalists and officials huddled. It was followed by a second blast, and a third. A portion of the wall crumbled. Some flaming lava poured down the new channel and into the depression, but much of the lava continued down the old path. Only a portion of the molten rock had been diverted. Within four days, the artificial channel had dried up completely...
...most important new source of support for records is unexpectedly coming from television. MTV (Music Television), a cable channel owned by Warner Communications and American Express, has become one of the biggest hits on cable television, beaming out rock music 24 hours a day, seven days a week. MTV, which was being boomed into 9 million cable-equipped homes last December, should reach 13 million households...
...openly channel aid to the contras through friendly countries. Central American governments are understandably loath to be the bagman for what is seen by many in the region as Yanqui imperialism. As Reagan said last week: "We'd be asking some other government to do what our Congress has said...
...been on the job little more than a year, has targeted communications, financial services and entertainment as areas for expansion. But moving into new fields has not been easy. One investment has already flopped. Earlier this year, the company shut down a pay-cable TV service, the Entertainment Channel, which it co-owned with RCA Corp., after the operation ran up losses of $50 million. Now that it has been proved that even Rockefellers can lose money, Voell hopes that the latest entry in communications will be a winner...