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...party leader in Leningrad, running against an unknown 28-year-old shipyard engineer, received only 15% of the vote. In fact, the five top Communists in the Leningrad power structure tumbled to defeat. Valeri Terekhov, a member of Leningrad's Democratic Union, an opposition group, noted, "Gorbachev opened a volcano, and I don't think he realized the lava was so deep...
...Salvador's Santa Ana volcano juts majestically over a verdant carpet of coffee bushes, coconut palms and banana trees, and the occasional clump of peasant shacks. Nine years of civil war have racked vast portions of the country, but Santa Ana and the rest of western El Salvador have hardly been touched...
Some of the most spectacular scenery on the largely undeveloped 4,038-sq.- mi. island -- the gizzards of an active volcano, for instance, or thousand- foot cliffs of the Kohala coast -- is virtually inaccessible to all but island birds and their kin, which includes the Bell JetRanger III helicopter. For a mere $1,380, the copter will take four people on a tour, complete with a champagne picnic on windswept Lauhala Point and a view right into the maw of the active volcano Kilauea. This jaunt is not for the faint of heart or weak of knee. When the tree...
Under the guns, Rangoon is returning to normal, at least on the surface. Stores are open, tea shops are busy, and hopelessly overcrowded buses lumber unsteadily through the streets. But the mood is sullen. "We are like a dormant volcano: calm on the outside, boiling inside," says a government worker. A group of monks has circulated a leaflet calling for a peaceful protest this week unless the generals set up an interim civilian government, and there were reports that some monks had been arrested. A 9-p.m.-to-4-a.m. curfew is strictly enforced. Prices have risen...
Offensive Line: This group is giving players like McMahon and Reidy a chance to shine. The veteran unit is led by guard Maurice Frilot, who sometimes opens holes the size of volcano mouths. His fellow linemen are tough and dependable...