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Only one railroad line runs the 250 miles from Manila to Naga, a city of 100,000 people located on the narrow, volcano-filled Bicol peninsula. Early last week that line was dramatically severed as 500 men, dressed in military fatigues and believed to be guerrillas of the Communist New People's Army, hijacked a train bound from Naga to the capital. They commandeered it to the town of Del Gallego and attacked the local constabulary headquarters, killing at least five policemen and three civilians. To cover their rear, the rebels blew up a key railroad bridge and effectively...
Some still endure. Most of the ancestor gods are gone now, but on the Big Island, the fire and volcano goddess Pele still lives. She is not worshiped, say modern-day Hawaiians, but she is acknowledged, and in the fiery and overflowing caldera of Kilauea she rules. The first hula, it is said, was chanted and danced in Pele's praise by her younger sister Hi'iaka. Recently Zuttermeister and some 25 other splendid hula performers, the spiritual descendants of Hi'iaka, brought their art to the American Dance Festival in Durham, N.C. It was not modern dance, which...
...others oppose the plan, arguing that the volcano has provided them with an unprecedented opportunity to watch unhindered regeneration. Says Cliff Dahm, a biologist at the University of New Mexico: "It would be foolish to short-circuit nature's experiment...
...twin spectacles of students seizing police officers as prisoners, and of police barging into university classrooms, eloquently summed up the volcano of unrest that erupted last week throughout South Korea. Day after day thousands of university students gathered on campuses across the country to demand democratic political reforms from the government of President Chun Doo Hwan. They staged marches, hurled fire bombs, seized buildings, chanted antigovernment slogans and burned effigies of Chun. To prevent the campus rioting from spilling into the surrounding streets and possibly igniting more disorder, police used armored cars and tear gas, and charged with clubs...
...volcano of antigovernment protests...