Picketing grows as mine workers walkout widens
Union miners and construction crews expanded picket lines across seven states, halting work for more than 40,000 in Alabama Illinois Kentucky Ohio Pennsylvania Virginia and West Virginia. Talks with the Association of Bituminous Contractors stalled in Washington.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Illinois
Kentucky
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
West Virginia
Washington
Association of
ABC
UMW
James Kelly
Eldon Callen
Seldon Dawson
UMW Construction
Dawson
World's largest peach shortcake planned for 1981 Peach Festival
Officials in Gaffney South Carolina announce plans for a massive peach shortcake weighing about 36000 pounds to be unveiled next month for the 1981 Peach Festival. Project chairman Wayne Humphrey notes precautions to ensure edibility after last year's touted milestone failed health checks. Weather outlook predicts partly cloudy with showers and highs in the 80s through Friday and mid 80s tones for the weekend.
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Gaffney, S.C
South Carolina
Wayne Humphrey
Humphrey
Polish Communist Party Faces Confidence Vote Crisis
In Warsaw, Stanislaw Kania and top aides are challenged at a stormy Central Committee meeting. Hardliners demand resignations while moderates seek reforms. A vote of confidence was proposed but rejected by a majority, delaying a test of the party’s survival as Soviet pressure calls for stern action.
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Warsaw
Poland
Communist Party
Stanislaw Kanin
Central Committee
Kania
PAP
Wojciech
Edward Gierek
Solidarity
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Israeli Weapons Shipment Halted by U S After Iraq Reactor Attack
Washington AP The Reagan administration halted four advanced jet fighter shipments to Israel after finding a possible violation of the 1952 arms deal. Secretary Haig told Sen Percy the attack on the Iraqi reactor may have breached the agreement as Haig reviews the matter. President Reagan was reportedly shocked by Israel’s destruction of the reactor.
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Washington
Reagan Administration
Israel
Alexander Haig
Charles Percy
R-Ill
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Haig
White House
Larry Speakes
Reagan
Floods Trap Campers in Monongahela Forest West Virginia
Floodwaters surged into homes and trapped campers in the Monongahela National Forest as storms produced up to four inches of rain in four hours. Meantime authorities conducted evacuations, rescue teams searched by air and ground, and officials warned of more rain with a flash flood watch in effect tonight.
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Camden
Gauley
W.va
Monongahela National Forest
West Virginia
Phil Zinn
National Weather Service
Charleston
Ed Rudloff
David Morris
Webster County
L.M. Koerner
Bob Bodine
National Forest Service
Bodine
Dana Frazer
Ken Johnson
Coon Creek
Johnson
Randy Cline
Jay Rockefeller
Highway Department
Theresa Cogar
Israeli Raid on Iraqi Reactor Alters Middle East Security
The June 7 1981 airstrike against Iraq’s Osirak reactor involved nine to fourteen Israeli F-16s and six F-15s and ended with the facility in ruins after three minutes. Prime Minister Begin held a cabinet crisis meeting as the mission, designed to deter future nuclear development, was confirmed from Jerusalem while pilots reportedly usedArabic-coded signals. Casualties were minimal, with estimates at three dead, and questions linger about timing linked to domestic elections and international reactions.
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Menachem Begin
Jerusalem
Israel
Raphael Eytan
David Ivri
Air Force
Red Sea
Etzion
Sinai
Gulf of Eilat
Iraq
Begin
Baghdad
Paris
Washington
Pentagon
Tuwaitha
Jacques Rimbaud
Rimbaud
Eytan
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U.S. Steel
Charles Fuller
Donna Michaud
Los Angeles
Veterans Administration
Wadsworth Veterans Hospital
Peachs le Keen
Jaruzelski
Koerner
Williams
Burch
Webster County High School
Rudloff
Weather Service
Williams River
Marcus Eliason
Tel Aviv
Arabian Peninsula
Tigris River
Anwar Sadat
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