Wildcat strike flares again in West Virginia
A wildcat coal strike surged Friday in southern West Virginia closing at least 56 mines. Some 7,000 miners were off work with 11 of 16 Eastern Associated Coal Corp mines shut and 37 other Kanawha County mines closed by sympathy strikers.
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Charleston
W.va
West Virginia
Dan Fields
West Virginia Coal Association
Eastern Associated Coal Corp
Kanawha County
Consolidation Coal
Amin Threatens Americans in Uganda Amid War Talk
In Uganda President Idi Amin confines about 240 Americans to stay in the country until a Monday meeting. He accuses the United States of human rights crimes and cites alleged plots to topple him. U.S. officials deny large Marine rescues, while a Kenyan port task force moved near the region.
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Nairobi
Kenya
Idi Amin
Uganda
Carter
United States
Amin
Vietnam
Cuba
Japan
Central Intelligence Agency
Radio
White House
Jody Powell
Powell
Enterprise
Truxton
Long Beach
Tautog
U.S
Mombassa
Britain
Israel
Kampala
Associated Press
Washington
West Germany
State Department
Paul Cherubet
Cherubet
Miami Beach
Fla
Vladimir K. Bukovsky
America
Soviet Union
Bukovsky
Russia
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Labor
Meany
Hostage siege ends as pregnant teen and baby freed in Syracuse
Unemployed construction worker Leroy Cotton released a pregnant 19 year old mother Earline Jones and her 18 month old son after a 12 hour standoff in a Syracuse apartment. Police said a man, George Sparks Jr., was killed and Cotton surrendered with a rifle. police described Cotton as hostile and said the infant was briefly used in a threatening scene.
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Syracuse
N.Y
Leroy Cotton
Lee Alexander
Thomas Sardino
Earline Jones
Cotton
Carr
George Sparks Jr
Sparks
Jennifer
New York
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Edward Conner
Ford
Linda Knotts
Grafton
Greg Godwin
Alberta Fuller
Bill Curry
Gail Owens
Akron
Randall Bond
Fts
Quinn Morton LI
The
Kanawha County Coal Operators Association
Janani Luwum
Peace Corps
Entebbe
TAN Aye
Taylor County
Barbour County
Barbour County Mountaineers For Rural Progress
Tax Office
Rod Carr
Timothy Mumford
Mumford
Sardino
New York City
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