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...shortly after 9 p.m. Wednesday, and Pilot Manuel Cervero was nearly home. Cervero was flying a DC-8 cargo jet from Miami to the Colombian capital, Bogotá, a sprawling city of 5 million in the Andes. The plane was cruising at 24,000 ft., 110 miles or ten minutes from El Dorado International Airport. Then, without warning, Cervero and his aircraft ran afoul of one of nature's most destructive phenomena...
Until they can eye a volcano and declare with certainty that it is ready to burst, scientists will remember with a wince their warning nearly ten years ago about Soufrière, a volcano on the Caribbean island of Guadeloupe that began to spout a heavy plume of ash. Goaded by the geologists' alarms, authorities evacuated more than 70,000 people from the area and kept them away for 3½ months. The result: the mountain continued to sputter smoke and cough volumes of ash for a while, but it never blew. --By Natalie Angier. Reported by Christine Gorman/New York and Charles...
...enjoys a two-thirds majority, last week passed an election reform bill stipulating that district and village officials, many of whom are loyal to Marcos, will oversee the polling. Under constitutional constraint to resign before participating in new elections, Marcos submitted a letter of resignation that would take effect ten days after the votes are counted and a winner proclaimed. He defended that move with the bizarre argument that the constitution specified only that he resign, not when...
Since the first home test for pregnancy, Warner-Lambert's e.p.t., appeared eight years ago, health kits have become easier to use and more accurate. In 1977 e.p.t. provided an answer in two hours. A new version introduced this week, Improved e.p.t. Plus, takes ten minutes. Even the trusty old thermometer has been improved. Marshall Electronics' digital thermometer, which gives an easier-to-read display, cost $39.95 when it was released in 1979. Today's handier model is priced at just...
...past month the department has tightened security to keep the leaks from recurring. The number of people who have access to the GNP number before release has been cut from about 60 down to ten. Analysts now tabulate the figure only twelve hours before its release, instead of 65. During the six hours or so they are working on the calculations, employees are confined to an office suite with no telephone privileges. If they need to use the restroom, a chaperon must go along. COMMUNICATIONS Mexican Connection for U.P.I...