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...campaign. Robb nonetheless remained studiously distant from Johnson too. A popular but powerless Lieutenant Governor since his debut in politics four years ago, Robb relied on winks, nudges and noncommittal words to suggest empathy with each of the ill-fitting elements of his coalition: suburban moderates and independents, coal miners and union members, many rural conservatives and blacks. On issues he was all but indistinguishable from Cole man. Their chief dispute was about which of them more clearly deserved to be called conservative...
Opponents of the sale suggested that some deals were indeed made by the President's staff. Some charged that Montana Democrat John Melcher, for example, won funding for a coal-conversion facility near Butte. Melcher said that the funding was approved long before the AWACS vote. When Majority Leader Howard Baker went to talk to the final uncommitted Senator, he told a colleague: "I've got to go talk to Sugar-I mean Senator Long." The reference was to Democrat Russell ("Sugar Ray") Long of Louisiana, who is fighting for sugar price supports in the pending farm bill...
...officers and enlisted men, sent in groups of three or four to 2,000 small towns and villages. Instead of moving against strikers, the soldiers began to attack the supply and distribution bottlenecks that are strangling the economy. Some army teams, for example, uncovered caches of hoarded coal and consumer goods. One patrol forced a state farm to harvest 600 tons of potatoes that would otherwise have rotted in the field. Another fixed a village heating system. Walesa gave the operation a limited endorsement when he told the Zyrardow strikers, "We should make order at the bottom through the army...
...Barter Systems missive to some of its 25,000 clients earlier this year: WANTED: $300,000 WORTH OF DRIED MILK OR CORNFLAKES, IN RETURN FOR AN AIRPLANE OF EQUAL VALUE. In another case, Barter Systems helped a tire company trade a jet airplane for $1.3 million worth of coal...
...should use fission and coal to lessen our dependence on imported oil, and at the same time, we should try and develop fusion energy as a future energy source," said Hsieh, who received the scholarship in July...