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Miss Valley 70. Ark Pine Bluff 65 Army 77, Siena...
...railroad through around 1900, wooded slopes and crags were incidental: the capitalists came to burrow and cart away endless tons of coal, which they're still doing today. The Tug Fork Valley, boosters chime, is THE HEART OF THE BILLION DOLLAR COAL FIELD. But hidden behind that bluff, commercial slogan is a different kind of past-peculiar and unsavory and murderous. This valley is the home turf of the Hatfields and the McCoys, whose family war a century ago became freakish folk legend, even as it was being fought...
...other issues, Papandreou's personality seems split between the bluff and bluster of the consummate politician and the ideological pronouncements of a dedicated Socialist. Papandreou's ambivalence was particularly apparent in his first major policy speech last week when he waffled on the two key foreign policy planks of his election campaign: Greek withdrawal from NATO and the removal of U.S. military bases from Greece. He indicated that Greece might ultimately withdraw from the military wing of NATO, but he left it unclear whether this was his firm intention or merely a suggestion. Said one high-level NATO...
...same time, the House vote was far short of the two-thirds necessary to override a veto, and Congressmen took the threat of a veto as no bluff. Said Senate Budget Committee Chairman Pete Domenici of New Mexico: "Reagan wants the Congress and the country to know he is serious about budget cutting." Within the White House, there were some qualms that a veto might make Reagan look like a wild man willing to produce governmental chaos if he did not get his way. Said one aide: "People might ask, 'What kind...
...nuclear weapons. Yuri Kapralov, a counselor at the Soviet embassy, told a crowd in Boston: "I wish your leaders would talk as clearly and forcefully for peace as ours do." Said Jeffrey Knopf, a Harvard junior: "We're simply asking the Government to call the Soviets' bluff. The U.S. hasn't even matched the Soviets' willingness to talk...