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...hottest show out of the West, competing with Disneyland and the tinsel of Hollywood. Visitors are flocking to it by the thousands. For sheer suspense it rivals even Hitchcock, continually hinting of ominous new surprises. The sulfurous center of all this attention is Mount St. Helens, site of the largest volcanic explosion in the U.S. in more than 60 years...
...destroyed or damaged 220,000 acres of timberland and created a monumental dredging job on three nearby rivers. In the four months since then, the mountain has been restive but not cataclysmic. There have been four major eruptions and numerous smaller ones, the most recent on Aug. 15. But Mount St. Helens lets no one rest, especially scientists...
...while, scientists have been gathering data from the living laboratory of Mount St. Helens. Some 200 have been to the mountain, and hundreds of others have applied for permits through a committee of scientists, mainly from the Northwest, who are screening applicants on behalf of the U.S. Geological Survey. The screening process is anything but tranquil as scientists from some 60 universities badger authorities for permission to enter the normally forbidden "red zone" around the foot of the mountain. Some of those denied access have accused the Forest Service and the U.S.G.S. of conspiring to corner data from the mountain...
...with volcanoes in Hawaii. But the effort has hardly been a waste of time. Says U.S.G.S. Geologist Robert Christiansen: "It has taught us that volcanic hazards are real in the U.S." More probing will be done in November at a NASA conference about the atmospheric and climatic effects of Mount St. Helens, with a view to decoding whatever messages the volcano sent on that fateful May day when the earth opened and the forces of creation were furiously unleashed...
...cleanup tasks in history. Says Douglas M. Costle, administrator of the EPA: "We didn't understand that every barrel stuck into the ground was a ticking time bomb, primed to go off." Predicts Dr. Irving Selikoff, director of the Environmental Sciences Laboratory of New York City's Mount Sinai Medical School: "Toxic waste will be the major environmental and public health problem facing the U.S. in the '80s." The EPA estimates that the U.S. is generating more than 77 billion Ibs. of hazardous chemical wastes a year and that only 10% are being handled in a safe...