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When Nevado del Ruiz, the Colombian volcano, blew up last week after 400 years of dormancy, the news did not take long to reach B. William Mader, TIME's deputy chief of correspondents. Already up and around at 6 a.m. in his New York City apartment, Mader dispatched Caribbean Bureau Chief Bernard Diederich to Colombia, then quickly ascertained that TIME's Tom Quinn, who works out of Bogotá, was already on the story. As the death toll mounted, Mader decided to send Rio de Janeiro Bureau Chief Gavin Scott, who was covering Halley's comet, to Bogotá to join...
Associate Editor George Russell, who wrote the cover story, served as Buenos Aires bureau chief for TIME from 1979 to 1981 and covered Colombia, although he never visited Nevado del Ruiz. Says he: "Colombia is a beautiful, untamed country, where violence lurks around every corner. This week's violence, though, was of a completely different order...
Cervero did not at first know that he had been flying 7,000 ft. above a 17,716-ft.-high, long-dormant volcano known as Nevado del Ruiz at the exact moment when it came thunderously alive. Within hours, that rebirth had left upwards of 20,000 people dead or missing in a steaming, mile-wide avalanche of gray ash and mud. Thousands more were injured, orphaned and homeless. The Colombian town of Armero (pop. about 22,500) had virtually disappeared. At week's end a huge cloud of ash, rising as high as 45,000 ft., hung dramatically over...
...From my experience with it, especially during the time when it began—the time of the groper—I think it was something the campus needed, even if it was only a psychological effect,” says HUCEP walker Alejandro G. Ruiz...
Alejandro G. Ruiz...