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...years the same technique has been used against flight attendants, printers, papermill employees, restaurant workers and others -- both in the public and the private sector. In West Virginia some 15,000 teachers went on strike two weeks ago in a dispute over pay raises. Last week Governor Gaston Caperton suggested that county officials should begin firing the teachers and replacing them with volunteers. On Saturday union officials urged the teachers to end the strike...
...everyone is happy with Caperton's reforms, which tend to centralize authority in the state capital. Taxes on gas and food are also considered unfairly regressive in a rural state where cars are considered vital to survival and per capita income is only $11,658, 49th in the nation. The Governor knows his support is fragile. He regularly tours local communities, listening to teachers and parents in an attempt to counter public apathy. Says Harold Carl, superintendent of Pleasants County schools: "We are on the right track. Now the big chore is to take the reform, master it and make...
...blocking the road to a nonunion mine. Two employees at Hampden Coal were hit by shotgun pellets. Said a spokesman for A.T. Massey Coal: "There is a total state of chaos. The state ((of West Virginia)) is out of control." Mining-company executives have urged West Virginia Governor Gaston Caperton to call out the National Guard, which he has so far refused...
...Caperton's success is also rooted in his experience running his family's insurance business in Charleston, which he built from a small operation into the nation's 18th largest brokerage. His politics, like his business management, depends on a salesman's enthusiasm and a willingness to listen. "I've never felt I had all the brains or all the answers," says Caperton. "If you expect more from people and respect what they have to say, it improves performance tremendously...
Gorbachev does it again, catching the U.S. off guard with an arms-control proposal that could deepen the U.S.-West German split. -- Los Angeles Mayor Tom Bradley loses some of his Teflon. -- Rookie Governor Gaston Caperton gives West Virginia something new and strange -- hope. -- The annual Statistical Abstract paints a picture of American life by the numbers...