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...fact, it was the latest and one of the most violent episodes in the current eruptions of 10,970-ft.-high Mount Etna, Europe's largest active volcano...
...year from last for the people who sit at the Vienna. But those who cross the street to buy a newspaper at one of the stands in the square can scarcely help realizing that something is up beyond spring. The Mexican government "is sitting on top of a political volcano," one American student with a tendency towards hyperbole says. It is difficult to judge if he is exaggerating...
Whether PRI will continue to run the country without opposition will be decided by the determination of young Mexicans to force reform. Those who see Mexico now as a political volcano expect students to do the erupting. The only guerrilla group that has acted openly in the last month is the "Cemite Armado de Liberacion Emiliano Zapata" led by veteran revolutionary Genaro Vasquez. Among the groups outside of Guerrero it is difficult to say which are guerrillas and which are banditos. Mexico's healthy but deeply submerged communist party does not have the strength to be a threat...
Well, obviously, it's like a volcano, a silent volcano, so that it's eerie, the kind of thing that you see smiles on faces, or you see expressionless faces but it can turn like this, and it can turn when it is convinced that there is a resistance framework, that is to say it's a structure, responsible, consistent, and likely and capable of leading the fight against the colonels internally. We are trying to provide this, this is what our task is, to build this framework. This is what we're working very hard...
That will not be easy. California is perched on the so-called "Ring of Fire," -an earthquake-and volcano-prone region that circles the Pacific Basin. It reaches as far south as New Zealand on the west, north through Japan, across the Aleutians and down the coast of the Americas on the east. Only recently have geophysicists begun to understand what stokes the ring's "fires." The seismic activity, they think, is the result of slow, creeping movements of the Pacific Ocean floor against the continental margins that surround it. In California, these movements have produced a distinctive, local...