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First stop was Poland, which provided Carter with a Communist forum for reaffirming his stand on human rights. Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek, a former coal miner, warmly greeted the President at a remote area of Okecie Airport, but then slyly made a pre-emptive strike on his guest's issue. Said Gierek: "To the people of Poland, which has so dreadfully experienced the atrocities of war, security is the supreme value; while life and peace are the fundamental rights...
Chicago already has a municipally owned waste-processing plant with the capacity to transform an average of 700 tons of trash a day into pellets that are the energy equivalent of 120,000 tons of coal a year; it sells them to Commonwealth Edison Co. In Saugus, Mass., a Swiss-developed technique used by New Hampshire-based Wheelabrator-Frye converts and burns 1,200 tons of garbage daily, producing the steam equivalent of 12 million to 17 million gals, of oil a year for a nearby General Electric plant. A Milwaukee plant is designed to devour 1,600 tons...
...million or 30% of all British workers?but it is under increasing pressure to raise pay levels. Britain's 32,000 firefighters have been on strike since November for a 30% boost, and the 260,000 members of the militant National Union of Mineworkers, who work for the National Coal Board, are demanding pay raises as high as 90% when their contract expires in March...
...Pond Gap, W.Va., a miner's wife walked into the general store, passed the potbellied, coal-burning stove and went to the back, where she opened a nervous conversation with Proprietor Virgil Huddleston. Finally, she got to the point. Her mother-in-law was coughing up blood and needed to go to the hospital, but the family could not afford to send her. Would Huddleston advance her a loan? He dug $50 out of his pocket. "As long as I've got it," he said, "I'm happy to help...
...stamina of U.S. coal miners should not be underestimated. Suffering is nothing new for them; it is often a matter of pride. They are demonstrating their resourcefulness in adversity. Outfitted in quilted parkas, they can be seen roaming the snow-covered hills and hollows of Appalachia in search of game to keep down meat bills. Their wives have canned fruit and vegetables to be stored in the cellar. If the utilities have stockpiled coal, so have the miners-to keep their homes warm during the cruel winter ahead...