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None of this earth activity appeared directly related to Mount St. Helens. And, indeed, by midweek Tim Hait, the U.S. Geological Survey's chief spokesman at the scene, was describing Mount St. Helens as "in a relaxed state of mind." But none of the U.S.G.S. scientists would say how long the calm would last. After Mount St. Helens rose from its slumber in 1831, it erupted 14 times in the next 25 years. Says Hait: "This time it could go on for five years, ten years or 20 years. That's a heck of an answer but there...
...students met with Dunn, Swain and Epps again Saturday morning, and agreed that Epps would investigate legal issues surrounding the showing and prepare a report by midweek...
...midweek silver was down to $15.80 per oz.; on Thursday it lost roughly a third of its value in a single day, falling as low as $10.20. Stories that Hunt was also selling other commodities touched off a frenzy that hammered prices not only of gold but also of copper, cotton and even cattle. Gold alone, which had reached a preposterous height of $850 per oz. in late January, dropped to a low of $463 last week. In the stock market, further rumors reported that Hunt and his associates were dumping stocks to raise cash in order to repay their...
...normal 250,000. Nurses hurriedly rounded up donors of the relatively rare B-negative blood type. The hectic search yielded 15 liters (about 32 pints) of blood necessary for an operation to excise the spleen: according to his Egyptian doctors, the organ had grown so bloated by midweek that there was a possibility it could burst in a fatal hemorrhage. The terse clinical diagnosis of New York Hospital's Dr. Benjamin Kean, who flew to Cairo on Wednesday to take part in the surgery: "He is not just sick, but very sick...
Politics aside, Carter obviously is having difficulty in steeling himself to recommend slashes in some of his own projects, though he knows he must if he is to come anywhere near balancing the budget. At midweek, the President discussed potential reductions for three hours with his top assistants in the chart-hung Cabinet Room of the White House. Said one aide: "It was agonizing for him. He was shaking his head, cutting these programs he had started." At one point, Budget Director James Mclntyre brought up an aid-to-education plan and remarked, "We know this is one of your...