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Newspaper
Bluefield Daily Telegraph
Location
Bluefield, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
May 11, 1981
Page
4
Hugh Shott serves as editor and Richard Wesley as executive editor. The columns on this page present a range of editorial and political opinions, with the exception of the column directly below, which may reflect the newspaper's views.
In Buchanan County Virginia UMWA President Sam Church reports nearing agreement with BCOA but six week old strike continues. Union demands royalties on non union coal and rejects the contract offer allowing royalty free processing. Deadlock drives miners toward potential late summer or fall reentry with ratification possible in two weeks if agreement is reached.
Readers urge coal companies to protect workers during strikes with better hospitalization and insurance. They defend unions, criticize Big Oil influence on coal, warn nonunion miners, and call for political action. Other letters discuss VA education payments, veterans' thanks, and gun control, urging stricter laws and condemning assassination.
Washington reports new evidence that FBI con man Mel Weinberg and agent Anthony Amoroso arranged a forged letter to incriminate Senator Pete Williams in the Abscam titanium mine scheme. transcripts detail calls with Camden Mayor Angelo Errichetti and plans to print a new letterhead. Errichetti later convicted in related cases. House narcotics committee road show cited.
Washington reports Walter Laqueur argues in The Terrible Secret that the world knew of Nazi killings long before liberation. Three years before camps were freed, evidence from witnesses and records showed extermination details, yet action remained minimal. The essay notes Soviet censorship and Western disbelief delayed response, urging awareness of brutal truth and its political consequences.
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