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...might support. Some are blatantly cynical. "The one that will win is the one who is in now," smiled a worker at a sugar-refining plant outside San Salvador, adding: "You have to be with the one that is in. If you are not, you will be in the lava mountains, right?" He was referring to a notorious stretch of lava rock outside San Salvador, called El Playón, that was recently discovered to be a dumping ground for victims of the right-wing death squads. The bodies were left there to be consumed by vultures. Another worker...
...surface. Though the planet has continent-size land masses topped by a mountain a mile higher than Everest, it does not seem to be rent by the earth's major mountain builder: continental drift. Rather, the key tectonic process appears to be volcanism, accompanied by lightning, flows of lava and an otherworldly version of earthquakes...
...volcano. The tremor dislodged a flank of the mountain already swollen from rising semimolten rock. A huge hunk of the mountain rumbled downhill like a great sliding door, uncovering rock saturated with compressed gases. Exposed to the air, the gases exploded. Geologists are encouraged by the fact that the lava dome that has been forming in Mount St. Helens' crater now appears to be stable, capable of serving as a cork for the mountain's bottled-up gases and the lava that is still rising. But no one will say that Mount St. Helens is ready to settle...
Bell, 59, a teetotaling Mormon and World War II Marine machine-gun instructor, grew up in Lava Hot Springs, Idaho, a farming community. After graduating from Albion State Normal School in southern Idaho, he taught chemistry and physics and coached basketball. Armed with a 1961 doctorate in educational administration from the University of Utah. Bell began earning high marks in administrative posts for the state of Utah, Salt Lake City and HEW. He resigned as Ford's Education Commissioner in 1976 for a more lucrative job as Utah commissioner of higher education, citing the imminent necessity of sending three...
...much smaller scale-to the bulge on the peak's north face before the May explosion. Scientists were not sure if it was caused by a swelling on the rim or the settling of material on the floor of the crater. Inside the crater a lava dome has been forming. It glows red as molten rock roils underneath its hardened crust. The questions: Will it be able to cap the volcano? Or will pent-up gases blast through again...