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...most political decisions of the year, the Undergraduate Council last night called on the University to divest from the strike-torn Pittston Coal Company and endorsed an international fast in memory of the students massacred in Beijing last spring...
...fusillade of negative spots, dredging up the personal charges against Wilder from the 1985 campaign. Without a cutting issue to transform the debate, the internal calculus in the Wilder campaign was that its candidate was mired at around 45% support, partly because of Democratic defections stemming from a rancorous coal miners' strike in southwestern Virginia and a Labor Day riot among black college students in Virginia Beach...
...guys on cruisers in the Med, talking about the world, has to be a plus for Gorbachev." Yet Soviet officials say symbolism counts for little when their store shelves are empty and their restive nationalities are in turmoil. Last week alone Gorbachev got several doses of new trouble. Coal miners in Vorkuta, north of the Arctic Circle, struck in defiance of legislation that makes such walkouts illegal. Coal strikes earlier this year have cost the Soviet Union an estimated $4.7 billion of lost production that will be missed as the bitter winter nears. That some hard-liners would like...
...brow several times as he spoke. Last year was the hottest ever recorded, spurring a debate among scientists as to whether the mercury was registering proof of the "greenhouse effect." Carbon dioxide and other chemicals are spewed into the atmosphere by the burning of fossil fuels like coal and gasoline; the gases trap radiation that has come from the sun and that would otherwise escape into space. The result is global warming: over time, sea levels will rise, droughts and floods could become more extreme, and tropical storms may rage more destructively...
Harvard's Bad Boy: Activists supporting the coal miners striking against the Connecticut-based Pittston Company have no doubt been frustrated with their recent attempts to gain the attention of Robert G. Stone '45, a member of the Pittston Board of Directors and the Harvard Corporation. So when the protested outside a Corporation meeting at 17 Quincy St. this Monday, for the third time this fall, they tried a new approach. They gave him a present--a symbolic bag of coal--to remind him that he has been "a very...