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...whose reputed customs is to carve parts from battle victims and bear them home as trophies for their women. Yet the most awesome aspect of this Dantean terrain is the inferno that may be hidden beneath it. After three recent expeditions to the Afar triangle, a Belgian volcanologist named Haroun Tazieff concludes that subterranean forces may slowly transform the area into a section of a large new ocean...
...less surprised by this than Irazú's chief physician, Volcanologist Haroun Tazieff, who was hired by .the Costa Rican government to study Irazú and try to predict its tantrums. Fearing exactly the kind of explosion that occurred last week, he urged that tourists be barred from the crater. Now the authorities have closed the tempting road to the summit...
...HAROUN AR RASHID (President, Pakistan Assn.) Cambridge, England
...Caves of Adventure, which describes two trips to the bottom of the Pierre Saint-Martin pothole in the Pyrenees, Polish-born Haroun Tazieff gives a speleologist's answer. After dropping into the limestone mountain about as far down as the Empire State Building is up (1,250 ft.), Tazieff had "an astonishing feeling" of accomplishment. The experience made him skeptical of such highfalutin motives for spelunking as the advancement of scientific knowledge and the development of a nation's natural resources by discovering underground rivers for hydroelectric power. Holes and caves, Tazieff concluded, seduce speleologists with that most...
...suite at the Savoy Hotel, swarthy Prince Haroun-al-Raschid Abbasi, 23, descendant of Bagdad's Caliphs, and heir to the fabulously wealthy throne of Bahawalpur in the Punjab, idly leafed through the News of the World. His eye lit on Katherine's picture. Could he, he asked by the next mail, come and congratulate such a lucky girl in person? The two arranged a rendezvous outside crowded Walham Green Underground station. Then the Prince went to Fulham to meet the family. They called him Harry...