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...eight hours in an MSHA safety seminar. "You still find a terrible fatalism out there," says Joseph Brennan, president of the Bituminous Coal Operators' Association. "An attitude that says, 'This is mining, you have to expect accidents.' " More and more, in dark hollows all over central Appalachia, that fatalism is having disastrous consequences. -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Ken Banta/Mink Branch
...walled-in ghettoes of Eastern Europe during the Middle Ages and as far away as the countryside of feudal Japan, the history of ethnic America unfolds not only on the American landscape, but on all the continents of the world. Scotch-Irish pioneers settled the mountainous regions of Appalachia, while freed Black slaves migrated to the cities of the Northeast. Turn-of-the-century immigrants turned New York into the largest Jewish metropolis that culture has ever known; Japanese farmers transformed the valleys of California into the most prolific fruit-producing areas of the world...
Michigan is only one of many regions around the U.S. where geologists and petroleum engineers are on the prowl for fuel. In Arizona and Appalachia, in New York and North Carolina, wildcatters and exploration teams are in breakneck competition to cash in on the energy bonanza brought on by the ever escalating prices of both oil and natural gas. Last year domestic drilling surged by 22%. In March alone, 6,404 wells were dug in the U.S., 650 more than during the same month of the year before...
...Proposition 2 1/2 is an absolute disaster and will destroy our public school system." State Sen. Alan D. Sisitsky told the crowd, adding. 'We have to stop the effects of 2 1/2 before Massachussetts becomes a state like Appalachia...
...Thoroughbred in The Electric Horseman; Burt Reynolds and Sally Field midwifed a pregnant elephant in Smokey and the Bandit II; and now Robert Blake and Dyan Cannon transport a herd of cattle Coast to Coast. This picture follows the standard itinerary: "meeting cute" in Pennsylvania, mutual suspicion in Appalachia, fistfight and car crash in Kansas City, loving and leaving in the Rockies, reconciliation in California. At the fadeout, man, woman and cows are all contented...