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Rudi Kiefer: Volcanoes pose major danger
Rudi Kiefer
It was a few minutes before the 5 p.m. close of business. Herbert Wahl, master technician at the language institute at Heidelberg University in Germany, had rigged a TV set to pick up news broadcasts from the American Forces Network. “Everybody come in here!” he shouted from his crammed studio. “They have a mountain exploding!”