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...epicenter of the quake was roughly 100 miles north of Bucharest, in the Vrancea mountain range of the breathtakingly beautiful Transylvanian Alps. One town near the center: Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, home of Olympic Gymnast Nadia Comaneci. (Comaneci's whereabouts after the quake were unknown, but she was presumed safe.) The area is well known to seismologists as an active earthquake zone; as many as 200 minor tremors may be recorded annually. Rumania's worst previous earthquake, in fact, centered on the same spot in 1940, damaging the same major centers and leaving about 400 dead...
...part of the book's warning is about paranoia. The narrator also passes up his one chance to get away from the corridors after corridors. Once he found a way out of them, a door into sunlight. He should have run hard and far and dove into a cold mountain stream. And returned, if he could then see a reason. The narrator left the doorway uncrossed, to return to the heart of the Pentagon, to seek his mission underneath the undying fluorescent lights, in the midst of all the senseless plans. He stays to search where the absurdities are carefully...
Tonight at Reflections (547-9281) Pepe Sanchez plays Spanish folk and attempts audience sing-alongs with occasional success. Tuesday, bluegrass fans can catch the Bunker Mountain Fiddlers...
...freezing weather-the stationary high-pressure system off the California coast-had broken up. Its departure allowed westerly winds to carry clouds over the Rockies and dump long-overdue snow on barren slopes in Oregon, Wyoming and Colorado. California's refreshed farmers reveled in the rain, and mountain ski operators romped in the snow-but federal weather experts warned of ominous signs that the blocking pressure "high" might be reforming. It was also clear that the accumulated moisture was but a drop in the bucket of water needed to prevent massive crop failures, hydroelectric power shortages, widespread economic losses...
...Saudis is studying whether or not the plan is practical. Towed by six tugs, the French believe, an iceberg could make the 5,000-mile journey from the bottom of the world to the Red Sea port of Jidda in six months to a year. If the mountain of ice was large enough-say 85 million tons-and wrapped in insulating plastic, it would shrink by no more than 20% along the way, providing enough water to the desert kingdom to make the venture economically feasible...