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Washington State is not the only place where volcanoes loom. There are explosive mountains in every corner of the world. Late last week, Alaska's Okmok volcano coughed a cloud of ash nearly a mile into the sky, perhaps presaging a period of increased volcanic activity. Near Mexico City, Popocatepetl, a 17,887-ft. volcanic peak, has begun to smoke and churn, threatening 500,000 people who live beneath it. In Italy five active volcanoes are being watched, the most menacing of which is the temperamental Vesuvius. In Japan 86 active volcanoes are packed onto an archipelago smaller than California...
...Japanese have donated instruments that will enable Mexico to keep a closer watch on Popocatepetl near Mexico City. And shortly after Pinatubo first showed signs of activity in April, the U.S. Geological Survey sent to the Philippines a team of scientists equipped with seismometers, tiltmeters (to measure tiny shifts in the slope of the mountain) and laptop computers to collect and analyze data. Several of the instruments, however, were obliterated by last week's eruptions, hampering efforts to figure out the volcano's next gambit...
...have played the voice of God in the 1966 movie The Bible, but Director John Huston, 77, cannot move mountains. So last month Huston moved to Cuernavaca, Mexico, in the shadow of Popocatepetl, site of his new epic, Under the Volcano. The film, which stars Albert Finney, Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Andrews, takes place during a single day in 1938, mostly inside the head of its drunken protagonist. "The consul is the most complicated character I've ever had in a film," says Huston. "He's like a Churchill gone bad, a great man with a flaw." Bisset...
...hemisphere's most beautiful cities, the capital is now one of the most blighted. Clouds of smoke from burning garbage, tortilla shops and public bathhouses-fortified by the rarefied oxygen at 7,347 ft.-make lung congestion almost epidemic and blot out the view of Popocatepetl and Iztaccihuatl, the twin peaks between which Hernan Cortes advanced in 1519. Other urban areas-Guadalajara and Monterrey -are almost...
Back in Mexico City, Castro, called on Spanish Colonel Alberto Bayo, onetime fighter against Franco. Said Castro: "You know all about guerrillas. You will teach us." Bayo sold his furniture factory, rented a big hacienda in the shadow of the volcano Popocatepetl, and taught hit-and-run warfare to 80-odd irregulars assembled by Castro...