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Despite their misgivings, the environmentalists concede that in some respects the President's plan has been improved. Perhaps anticipating an outcry from the left, Bush's aides added unexpected new restrictions on coal- fired power plants that would require utilities to cap acid-rain-causing emissions after the year 2000. Such provisions help explain why industry largely withheld its endorsement last week. As an Administration official said, "If we're taking fire from both sides, it tells you something about where we are on the political spectrum...
Speaking to the national legislature, the Supreme Soviet, Gorbachev said party and government bodies as well as official trade unions should meet immediately to analyze the two-week strike that at its peak idled half the Soviet Union's one million workers in the coal industry and deprived vital factories of fuel...
...blamed coal ministry and local officials rather than the miners, but warned "deciding such questions by striking will ruin our work...
...week-old strike by 1,900 mine workers against Pittston Coal in Virginia, West Virginia and Kentucky began as a model of genteel labor relations, with strikers staging peaceful sit-ins and picketing politely. But last week the increasingly bitter standoff, which has grown to include more than 37,000 wildcat strikers throughout coal country, turned into an old- fashioned, ugly war. A car bomb exploded at a Virginia coal company, and strikers hurled rocks at coal-carrying trucks near the entrance to Sydney Coal in Kentucky...
...West Virginia, where battles have been especially fierce, nearly 300 strikers were arrested for 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...