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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Aug 24, 1990
Page
6
A West Virginia and Virginia weather brief notes showers and thunderstorms with rain and flurries. Temperatures vary with highs around 80 to 94 degrees and lows near 64 to 44 degrees across the period.
The forecast notes a 40 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms with highs in the upper 70s to 80s across several periods. Tonight and Friday bring clouds and continued chances, with lows in the mid to upper 60s. Regional prints mention partly cloudy conditions in West Virginia and California locations Borrego Springs and Jackson, Wyo, with varied highs and lows.
The Bush administration evacuated non essential personnel from the U S embassy in Kuwait City ahead of Saddam Hussein’s deadline. About a dozen of 120 Americans remained with the ambassador and a skeleton staff as Marine guards left. one woman in the convoy was injured in a collision en route to Baghdad where officials expected to air lift them.
Rep. Nick Rahall of West Virginia, a Middle East expert, tells Arab-American leaders in Washington that Bush overreacted to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and warns of rising anti-Arab sentiment in the United States. He says the gulf crisis will not end soon and criticizes U S credibility.
The meeting explored industrial heritage in the coal region, noting Black workers’ roles in the late 1800s and nonsegregated company stores. Participants urged field by field development, inventory of resources, and preservation of oral history while a federal study to protect coal mining heritage proceeds.
UMWA attorneys promise an appeal to a nine page ruling directing Pittston lawyer Steve Hodges to draft an order giving the union ten days to pay 52 million dollars. County officials fear a referendum on accepting the funds, while officials say the money would default to Russell and Dickinson if supervisors do nothing. Del. Jackie Stump warns the opinion’s contempt clause hampers relief efforts for the strike torn region.
Scattered rain and heavy downpours moved through the South and East on Thursday. In West Virginia, Glenville 3.95 inches in 24 hours, Hico 3.75 inches, East Lynn Dam and Clarksburg 2.5 inches each. Little Kanawha River rose 6 feet at Grantsville in six hours but stayed below flood stage as Red Cross assessed Wayne County flood damage. at least 14 East Lynn homes were flooded Wednesday.
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