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...Islanders whisked past L.A. and are nearing their peak. Injuries to opportunist Mike Bossy (who will play) and the slick but little-noted Anders Kallur (who won't) cloud their prospects, but goalie Billy Smith has waxed brilliant--he did not permit a goal in the last 96 minutes against the prolific Kings. The cognoscent who haunt section 308 in the Nassau County Coliseum point to the simultaneous addition of Butch Goring and loss of Billy Harris as the key to the Isles' Big Mo. Islanders...
...apparently injured few seriously. But had it been something else--say radiation released from a nuclear plant in the case of a meltdown--the damage would have been incalculable. Radiation would be much harder than toxic gas to combat--on Thursday, at least, workers had a clearly visible localized cloud. Those in danger could smell the gas, and there were comparatively safe places to flee, refuges that would be much harder to find in the event of radiation release. Thursday's accident demonstrated Boston's--and any other city's--vulnerability...
Streaked by lightning, a black and white plume soared high above the cloud cover around the peak. Scientists who rushed to the mountain discovered that a crater 200 ft. wide by 250 ft. long had opened near the mountain's northern crest. Three hundred loggers working on the slopes, 50 forest rangers and their families and 60 residents of the tiny village of Spirit Lake (pop. 100), located at 3,200 ft., were evacuated. One defiant oldtimer, Harry Truman, 83, operator of the Mount St. Helens Lodge less than two miles from the crater, said he would stick...
...Monsignor O'Brien highway, one of the nearby streets police closed off, only an occasional emergency vehicle sirened by, heading toward the source of the white cloud...
...just wanted to see what the cloud was. If I'd known it was going to make me choke, I never would have gone near it," another patient, still breathing shallowly an hour and a half later, said