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...FORTUNE'S list of the 200 biggest non-U.S. companies. Because the company has been nationalized since 1947, the N.C.B. chairman is also a political appointee serving at the pleasure of the government. So last week, when the politically charged issue of last fall's Aberfan "coal tip" disaster broke into the headlines once again, all Britain debated the fate of old Lord Coal...
...doctrine of ministerial responsibility does not strictly apply" in his case, "I follow its rules." The government promptly announced that it would sit on the resignation, at least until the N.C.B. had finished its own report on measures to prevent future disasters. If Robens was to be the Aberfan scapegoat, he now stood as something of a martyr -and to many Britons the government seemed to be playing politics by delaying his exit. Robens seemed to agree: he promptly set to speeding up the N.C.B. report...
...days the rain had been falling, soaking the bleak Welsh coal-mining village of Aberfan and the 800-ft. slag heap towering above it like a black, oozing Everest. Then one morning last week, David John Evans, a maintenance man with a local colliery, climbed to the top of the waste heap to look into reports that the gigantic mass was moving. With a shock, Evans discovered that it was. "Suddenly I saw the heap shifting," he recalled later. "The movement was like thunder. I could hear trees on each side being crushed to matchwood...
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