Stardate 20010725.1743 (On Screen): Ętna is erupting (as it has intermittently for the last few thousand years) and is pushing lava, tossing ash and generally making a nuisance of itself. An Italian government official flew over it in a helicoptor and after he landed he announced that "the situation is under control." This is a first; the Italians have the technology to control a volcano? Since when? (Wish we'd had that in Portland OR on May 18, 1980.)
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