Seven Die In Dickenson County Underground Mine Explosion
Seven coal miners died in a 460 foot deep Clinchfield Coal Co. mine in Dickenson County Virginia after an explosion at 10 15 p m Tuesday three others were injured and 74 escaped. The dead include F C Riner 58 a section foreman Ernest A Hall 30 foreman J Covey French 45 Luther McCoy 37 Dale Stamper Jr 56 Eugene W Meade 26 and Mary K Counts 51 the first woman miner killed in Virginia. Investigators suspect methane with dust and air pressure changes as factors.
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Mcclure
Virginia
Clinchfield Coal Co
Dickenson County
Jerry Jenkins
Clinchfield Coal
Susan Copeland
Copeland
F.C. Riner
Dante
Ernest A. Hall
Castlewood
J. Covey French
Clintwood
Luther McCoy
Nora
Dale Stamper Jr
Lebanon
Eugene W. Meade
Coeburn
Mary K. Counts
Nora McClure
Appalachian Mountains
OSM Considered Ineffective By Environmental Committee
Washington AP A Appalachian group accuses the Office of Surface Mining of doing little to enforce mine reclamation laws. The Council of Southern Mountains testified to a House panel listing operators, including 25 in West Virginia, who ignored orders and unpaid fines. The group cites inactive sites with landslides and pollution risks while the agency notes $44 million in penalties and a tougher approach since earlier administrations.
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Washington
Office of Surface Mining
Council of Southern Mountains Inc
OSM
West Virginia
Council
House
Interior Energy and Environment
Appalachian
L. Thomas Galloway
Federal
James R. Harris
Pope and Jaruzelski Meet After Krakow Audience
Pope John Paul II held an unplanned two hour talk with Communist Party chief Gen Wojciech Jaruzelski in Krakow during his visit as tens of thousands supported Solidarity. Walesa awaited a meeting, while protests nearby in Nowa Huta and streets ended peacefully under police restraint.
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Krakow
Poland
John Paul II
Communist Party
Wojciech Jaruzelski
Lech Walesa
Pope
Walesa
Solidarity Union
Nowa Huta
John Paul
Jaruzelski
Jerzy Urban
Wawel Castle
Solidarity
Rebels Offer Truce to Arafat in Lebanon Crisis
Beir ut AP Saed Mousa leader of rebel Fatah mutineers called for democratic dialogue with Yasser Arafat to end the fighting in Lebanon while clashes killed 10 and wounded 27. Arafat denied Syrian tank involvement as rival factions clash near Tripoli and along the Beirut Damascus corridor.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Saed Mousa
Palestine Liberation Organization
Yasser Arafat
Tripoli
Arab Salim
Fatah
PLO
Arafat
Israel
Abu Mousa
Beirut-Damascus
Bekaa
al Fatah
Revolutionary Council
Fatah Central Committee
Virginia's Intermediate Appeals Court Faces Mounting Opposition
In Roanoke AP report, Virginia lawmakers clash over cost and size as state senator Dudley Emick prepares bills to repeal authorizing the new court by 1985 and to expand the Virginia Supreme Court to nine, eleven, or twelve justices. Proponents seek full jurisdiction for all cases, while critics warn of higher costs and overreach.
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Roanoke
Virginia
Intermediate Court of Appeals
General Assembly
Dudley Emick Jr
D-Botetourt
Emick
Virginia Supreme Court
High Court
Supreme Court
Senate
Hunter Andrews
Space Shuttle Rehearses Satellite Retrieval in Weather Delay
NASA astronauts aboard Challenger performed a record aerial maneuver releasing and recapturing the SPAS satellite in orbit. Bad Florida weather delayed the planned Kennedy Space Center landing while Edwards AFB remained option. President Reagan canceled his landing visit due to uncertainty.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Florida
Reagan
NASA
Challenger
Edwards Air Force Base
California
Edwards
John Cox
John Fabian
Sally Ride
Norman Thagard
Robert Crippen
Tommy Holloway
Crippen
Rick Hauck
Earth
Spas
Kennedy Space Center
Holloway
Army Missile Range
White Sands
N.M
New Mexico
White House
George F. Page
Larry Speakes
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John Kennedy
United Mine Workers of America
Kennedy
McClure No
Skentucky
Environmental Committee
Valesa
Gdansk
Blonie Parade
Rafal Kalinowski
Albert Chmielowski
Bobby Dean Bradshaw
Bluefield Orioles
Giles County News
Old Dominion News
Jihad Saleh
National Weather Service
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