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...called the ceasefire, which lasted for only 24 hrs., in order to extricate their men. After the resumption of fighting, there were clashes off and on between the Israelis and Syrian and Palestinian forces around the Beirut airport and in the hills east of the city. On Wednesday, a cloud of black smoke hung over West Beirut from a fire at a tire factory that had been hit by Israeli bombs...
...that afternoon, Israeli jets roar high above the city. Two sonic booms follow in quick succession. A cloud of leaflets is produced in midair. It hangs, then floats down very slowly, like a great hive of small white birds beating their wings wildly as they fall...
...pointed straight up." The result: the Mexican volcano injected much more dust, ash and sulfur dioxide into the stratosphere, where the particles would be wafted high enough (at least 18 miles) to be carried in a westerly direction by prevailing high-altitude winds. Thus far, the cloud has been spotted over Hawaii, Japan, the Indian Ocean and Africa. U-2s have also detected traces over Kansas and Montana...
...Chichón's cloud covers more than one-quarter of the earth's surface and is constantly changing. Between the equator and 30° north, the debris has blocked out as much as 10% of the sun's total radiation. "That's very large," says Atmospheric Physicist John DeLuisi of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. "That's very significant...
Brian Toon of NASA's Ames center says the cloud could reduce temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere by a degree or so next summer-enough to affect growing seasons and rainfall. Others say the effect will be too negligible, only a few tenths of a degree. Scientists will have plenty of time to decide the issue: it may take up to five years before all the dust from El Chichon settles back to earth. Says DeLuisi: "We've got a nice little experiment going on here...