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Both the Chairman and the Ranking Minority Member of the House Armed Services Committee were on the record strongly opposing a draft and the bill. A week ago, Denver’s Rocky Mountain News wrote that H.R. 163 had “virtually no support on Capitol Hill.” Indeed, until Tuesday, the bill had seen its last action twenty months ago, when it was referred to a subcommittee. It was never even given a hearing. And it never would have seen the House floor were it not for the Republican leadership’s need...
Other students said they feared another explosion would be a blow to recreational activities at the mountain...
Students who have hiked on Mount St. Helens said the mountain still bears scars of the 1980 eruption...
Cassandra M. Niemi ’07 said she saw an enormous crater opened by the last explosion when she was hiking up the south side of the mountain...
Lucas T. Laursen ’06, president of the Harvard Mountaineering Club, noted that when he last climbed the mountain, the top barely extended beyond the treeline. He said the next eruption will likely reduce the mountain mass even further, leaving no rocky area for scaling...