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Show Page I'tah. Sunday. HERALD. Provo. 30-T- HE March 28. 1982 Desert Wonderland Called Site Columbia Landing - The WHITE SANDS. N M tl PIi missile base where the shuttle Columbia will land is the size of Connecticut and a desert wonderland of atomic glass, unusual wildlife and fossil lootpnnts of woolly mammoths. Buried among the white gypsum sand Junes are ' dud" bombs arrowheads made by Apache warriors and cannons that Spanish Conquistadors tried to haul across the vast desert on their "journey of death." Prairie rattlesnakes, diamondbaeks. earless lizards, white pocket mice, coyotes, jackrabbits and an antelopelike beast called an oryx abound in the 4.000 square miles of undulating dunes, sage, mesquite and tumbleweed. Astronauts Jack Lousma and Gordon Fullerton will land the Columbia Monlong north-soutday on a remote runway after making a wide sweeping turn over the San Andres mountains to h the west. About 40 miles north of the runwav is the "Trinity site" of the first atomic bomb explosion in 1945. The bomb storage structure had exploded blast fused the deseret sand and at Alamagordo Army Airfield. The "Trinity site" is now a National created a new glass-likmineral called Park Service historical landmark. "Trinitite." The Fossile footprints believed to be that J. Robert made was detonated by a woolly mammoth and a developed from a tower, sending a Shockwave precursor of the modern camel have throughout New Mexico and west been found 3 miles from the Columbia's Texas and touching off calls from runway and an effort is being made to alarmed citizens who thought an get that area registered as an historical landmark. arsenal had exploded. The alkaline flats and gypsum air An official "cover" story for the top secret project was leaked saying a strip was the floor of a lake until this e Ike Would Have Fought Nuke War Over Berlin UPI WASHINGTON an "all-ou- i had risked - If the Soviets in war" over Berlin t 1959, the Eisenhower administration was prepared to use nuclear weapons to defend threatened allied rights in the divided city according to Senate testimony released Saturday. "We feel that we must hold Berlin at all costs, even to general war," Gen. Nathan Twining told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Jan. 16. 1959. "We must start and stay with it and make up our mind that when we start ... we have to follow through." "We must never be caught bluffing," said the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Twining, Secretaries of State John Foster Dulles and Christian Herter and other Eisenhower administration officials are quoted in declassified committee testimony contained in a report released by the panel. Berlin was not the only foreign policy crisis in that year which also saw the rise to power of Fidel Castro. But. based on the transcript, it was a prime concern of the committee in 1959. The Berlin crisis began in November 1958 when octhe Soviets demanded an end to the to in the former turn order of Berlin cupation German capital, surrounded by East Germany, into a "free city." 900-pa- four-pow- Soviet-controlle- d Herter testified on March 10 the Soviet "free city'' proposal "is a deliberate unilateral abrogation of an agreement that we don't recognize they have a right to do." "It seems to me totally unacceptable that one should convert the vanquished, the East Germans, into victors with right to control our movements in a position which we gained by right of the victory in the war." echoed Assistant Secretary of State for Europe Livingston Merchant. "I cannot visualize seeing fighting this out in the middle of Europe in a limited war," Herter said. NATO, he said, was ready to meet "the ultimate o threat." whether "ultimate threat" he meant "nuclear bombing " Herter said: "It would have to come to that." Merchant said "If we are attacked, we would be prepared to retaliate with force." "If there is an overt act of war there," Herter told the committee, "we would have to make it war if perfectly clear that this is going to all-owar is going to be the answer, which we naturally hope it is not going to be." Asked Herter stressed that "we are not going to fire the first shot in this situation." Merchant said that "if war comes, it will be by an attack on us or our TONLY 3: H&R 1 test-fire- STEAM 1040A Short Form than tor the more complicated 1040 Long Form What do you get when we prepare your taxes' A complete interview by a person specially trained in the new tax for accuracy laws And a return that's double-checke- d How much will your tee be' Call or visit a nearby H&R Block office and we'll be happy to give you an estimate. 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The huge area part of the Tularosa Valley in southcentral New Mexico was chosen for the Army's missile test range because it was remote, the land was cheap and much of it was already government-owned- , and the weather was usually clear. d The first Hounddog Missile on the range in the 1950s got a kill it century. "W. hov. t.on.d o.r 40,000 homti " a Any 2 Rooms NO SIZE LIMIT-OFFE- GOOD R THRU APRIL, 3, 1982 THE INCOME TAX PEOPLE 17 reasons. One smart decision. Provo, 110 S. 500 W. American Fork Sprinsville Orem ...SOL Main 141 $. Main 740 S. State Payson VISA 375-343- ... 6 U AWO N. Otak SI Kepli HiEl In. t Km ' & MASTER CHARGF ACCtPttO 224-14- 45 Mountain Rebuilding Its Top It Blew in '80 - Two between. This month the volcano VANCOUVER, Wash. (UPI) years is a mere blink of the eye in a staged its most recent outburst, a comand explosive geologist's measure of time, but it has bination been long enough for Mount St. Helens eruption demonstrating its to start rebuilding the peak it blew potential. The latest growth raised the dome to away in a spectacular 1980 volcanic mound 680 feet high, 1,800 a eruption. It's not the first facelift for the moun- feet wide and 2,000 feet long. g But it will take many more tain, which has been torn apart and fill remade more than once in its relatively of to the magma eruptions dome-buildin- g still-leth- loaf-shape- d dome-buildin- young life. But nature will take its time turning the volcano, one of several in the Cascades, back into a symetrical, peak rising in an almost unless it blows its top perfect cone again in another violent eruption. The picturesque form of Mount St. Helens was the product of many centuries of nature's work that culminated about 450 years ago. Some minor touch-up- s occurred during a of snow-cloake- d half-centu- intermittent, moderate activity that ended in 1857. Then two years ago on March 27. 1980 the mountain erupted for the first time in more than a century, shooting out a puff of steam and opening a vent near its 9,677 foot summit. Less than two months later, on May 18, the volcano became a killer in one cataclysmic blast that tore the top 1,300 feet off the mountain, flattened 150 square miles of timber, sent ash clouds that turned day into night as far away as Missoula. Mont., unleashed floods that tore out bridges, and left 60 people dead. More explosive eruptions, none of the May 18 magnitude, sent out more ash and widened and deepened the crater that took on the shape of an amphitheatre with an opening at its north end. Then, as geologists had predicted, a dome began to grow within the crater from viscuous molten rock rising through a channel or series of channels linking the violent mountain to an inferno miles beneath its base. Several eruptions followed with a few explosive blasts in dome-buildin- g itiMf wide crater and give Mount St. Helens a peak again. Scientists don't know how long that will take. Within the lifetime of anyone alive today? "Possibly, but probably not," said Dr. Stephen Malone of the University of Washington geophysics department. "Maybe in my kids' time, but not mine," said Dr. Elliot Endo, a geophysicst with the United States Geolgocial Survey working at the un1.5-mi- iversity. Both scientists said the rate of dome growth will depend upon the supply of magma and the forces available to push it up into the gaping crater. Also, there's a likelihood of cona building force of risflicting forces ing magma and a destroying force of heavy gaseous explosions. Since the May 18, 1980, blast, each explosive eruption has been less forceful than the one before, but Malone said that does not mean that pattern will continue. It is conceivable the mountain could have another cataclysmic explosion within the near future, he said, but scientists do not know what it will do next. "It's like trying to figure out what the weather is going to be in two months without being able to look outside," said Malone, explaining most of the mysteries of the volcano are hidden deep within the earth. But he said scientists are learning to forecast behavior on the basis of data recorded during past eruptive curt &VSf . tww :SL This year discover the ClhemLaiwim Dnfffferemice Put all this ChemLawn Care to work on your lawn and reap these benefits. Put the ChemLawn Difference FESTIVAL LEARNING to work for you. SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT MARCH 29 00 p m 12 00 Call today "Employee Motivation What Works. What Doesn't and Why ." 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