Perot's blunt talk draws praise and protests
Wednesday Inside reports that Nation A-2 Ross Perot calls his straight Texas talk while gay rights activists like Gregory King label some remarks bigoted. The piece also notes critics question Perot's sensitivity to women and ethnic groups. Additionally, AIDS quarantines face scrutiny as Michigan and Oklahoma officials confine two HIV positive individuals amid controversy.
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Ross Perot
Texas
Gregory King
Perot
Michigan
Oklahoma
Rockefeller plans Raleigh Mercer tour to lure business
U S Senator Jay Rockefeller announces Discover the Real West Virginia day in Raleigh and Mercer counties on July 7. He will host industrialists to showcase the region and encourage new local business openings. Mercer County Health Department warns Lyme Disease risk from tick bites. A student, Marvin Lee, graduates Phi Beta Kappa from Oklahoma and will pursue high school diploma then college, aiming to enjoy missed social activities with old friends.
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U.S
Jay Rockefeller
D-W.va
West Virginia
Raleigh
Mercer Counties
Mercer County Health Department
Marvin Lee
Phi Beta Kappa
University of Oklahoma
Duncan
Lee
Calendar highlights for Bluefield and Princeton events
Today features a Red Cross Bloodmobile at the GTE building in Bluefield from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sid Wheeler performs in Music in the Square at Town Square, Princeton, at noon. Friday June 19 sees a Bluefield Antique Festival at the Bluefield Recreation Center and Auditorium from 6 to 9 p.m., continuing Saturday and Sunday with extended hours.
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American Red Cross Bloodmobile
GTE
Bluefield
Sid Wheeler
Princeton
The
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Town Square
Appalachian Antique Association
Bluefield Recreation Center
Weather outlook with showers and warm highs
Today shows a 30 percent chance of showers and thunderstorms with south winds 5 to 10 mph and a high near the low 70s. Tonight possible showers and thunderstorms with a low in the lower 60s.
Rockefeller pushes health bill for retired miners in energy package
U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller won a one vote amendment attaching the Coal Industry Retiree Health Benefit Act to the Senate Finance Committee energy bill. Governor Caperton praised the move as a step to avert a coal miner strike. Rockefeller vows to save health care for about 120,000 miners and widows and work with Wendell Ford to broaden consensus.
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Washington
U.S
Jay Rockefeller
D-W.va
Rockefeller
Senate Finance Committee
West Virginia
Gaston Caperton
Bluefield
Caperton
Senate
Congress
Bush
Sen. Wen
Bush and Yeltsin agree on major nuclear cuts and POW search
United States and Russia pledge to reduce long range nuclear weapons to no more than 3500 warheads per side by 2003 and to form a joint commission to investigate potential American POWs in the former Soviet Union. Yeltsin says a few Americans may remain in captivity. The pact marks the first post USSR arms agreement and could aid Bush as he seeks re election.
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Washington
United States
Russia
Soviet Union
Bush
Boris Yeltsin
Yeltsin
Communist Party
KGB
Caperton salutes FOP for keeping WV lowest in crime
Governor Caperton praised West Virginia law enforcement at the 35th Biennial Conference of the West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police, telling about 200 officers that the state remains among the nation's safest. He cited declines in murder, robbery, and auto theft since 1986, while noting increases in rape and overall violent crime.
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Caperton
Bluefield
Gaston Caperton
Mountain State
West Virginia Fraternal Order of Police
West Virginia
Evidence implicating Church OK'd for use in Howell trial
A Tazewell County Circuit Court judge ruled that evidence implicating Walter L. Church in the Davis family killings may be used in the upcoming perjury trial of Sherry Lynn Howell. The decision allows admission of hearsay statements tied to Church and references to transcripts from the Ealy murder trial.
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Church OK
Howell
Tazewell
Mercer County
Pocahontas
Tazewell County
Don Mullins
Sherry Lynn Howell
Big Vein
Jim Slone
Samuel Stephen Ealy
Walter L. “Pete” Church
Montcalm
Ealy
Church
Robert Davis
Davis
Slone
Mullins
Commonwealth
Michael L. Dennis
Dennis
Commonwealth's
Tom Bowen
Tom Scott
Bowen
Environmental group accuses Corps over New River pollution
Save Our Mountains of Summers County accuses the Corps of Engineers of dumping trash through Bluestone Dam into the New River and vows a lawsuit after 60 days if regulators do not respond. They contrast funds for a Putnam County site with alleged cleanup inaction and cite navigational and health concerns downstream.
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Corps
New River
SOM
Richard Smith
Environmental Protection Agency
Smith
Putnam County
Bluestone Dam
John Clark
Clark
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Oak Hill
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