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...frame houses, a couple of eating places, a bank, a gas station and small supermarket. A lone yellow blinker slows traffic a little. But few outsiders ever stop, and that is fine with Galatians, who have better things to do than chat. They raise corn, graze cattle and dig coal for a living. "Until lately," drawls one miner, "two dogs crossing the road at the same time was a big event here." Now there are bigger and more ominous events in town. As has often been the case in the region's tumultuous history, coal is the crux...
Galatia lies on the eastern edge of the Illinois basin, a 25 million-acre, spoon-shaped, subterranean shelf of coal that has made the state the nation's fourth largest producer. For almost a century now, the basin has been union turf. While only 44% of all U.S. coal is dug by members of the United Mine Workers of America, down from 70% a decade ago, some 99% of Illinois coal is union mined. The legendary John L. Lewis rose to the presidency of the U.M.W. as a legislative lobbyist from the union's Illinois District 12, which...
...when his statistics are flung down on the table there is little to quarrel with. America--and even more the world--is running short of traditional fuels, he says. The long-term development of inexhaustible resources is assured, but in the interim a mix of conservation and dirty energy--coal and nuclear electricity generation--are imperative, he insists. Neither right nor left has met the problem square on; it will take, he says, a realist unswayed by the dogma of free enterprise or the hypnosis of absolutist environmentalism. And perhaps, in this case, he is right; at any rate...
Referring to the dispute in Canada over acid rain caused by the American coal industry, she said, 'Canadians are touchy about imported noxious influences. If we want our lakes killed, we'll do it ourselves--not that you're not doing a good...
MARRIED. George Wallace, 62, former Alabama Governor and American Independent Party presidential candidate; and Lisa Taylor, 32, country-and-western singer turned executive of a family-owned coal firm; he for the third time, she for the second; in Prattville, Ala. Wallace, who was divorced from his second wife Cornelia in 1978, met Taylor when she and her sister sang at voter rallies during his 1968 presidential campaign...