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...harshest engagements to date, 1,500 government soldiers swarmed around the rugged, inactive volcano of Guazapa last week, about 15 miles from the country's capital of San Salvador. They pounded the area with heavy artillery, while support aircraft rained down phosphorous bombs and 100-lb. and 500-lb. high-explosive charges. Their quarry was a guerrilla contingent that had turned Guazapa into a formidable stronghold. The attack aircraft were hit by heavy ground fire from machine guns, while Salvadoran army helicopters ferrying in troops took such concentrated fire that they tried to remain on the ground no longer...
...like living on a volcano. Those of us who sought to keep the Government going had no idea when another eruption would start." This was Watergate, and in Part 2 of TIME'S excerpts from Years of Upheaval, Henry Kissinger describes how that "astonishing and shattering tale" unfolded. -Also in Part 2, the tale's dramatic denouement: the disintegration of an Administration and the fall of a President, and a moving account of two emotional meetings that Kissinger had with Nixon in the last hours before the resignation. -A compelling portrait of Richard Nixon, "a man whose nightmares...
With advanced electronic cameras, which automatically focus and determine light settings, almost anyone can film action: a fire, a raging crowd or an erupting volcano. Only someone with a special eye can catch those odd and revealing juxtapositions that give meaning to the obvious and jejune. The portraits of an exploding Mount St. Helens were awesomely beautiful; but it was San Jose Mercury News Photographer George Wedding's aerial picture of Andy, an eleven-year-old who had been asphyxiated by volcanic ash as he lay in the back of a pickup, that conveyed the awful power of that...
Handlin compared the present international situation to "living in the edge of a volcano" and warned that Americans must realize that it can erupt, but meanwhile, there are things we can do to postpone or prevent its eruption...
...Volcano--Thursday at 5 and 8 p.m.; Carpenter Center...