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...Philadelphia hotel room last January and pressed for more payoffs. He grumbled about having to split the $50,000 with his friends, but soon turned philosophical. Said Myers: "Who am I going to complain to? My Congressman?" He promised to help the "Arabs" build a $34 million hotel and coal-shipping operation in Philadelphia by running interference with the city's Mafia bosses, but warned the "Arabs" that they must stick to their word. Said Myers: "I can't go back [to the Mafia] and say, 'Look, I made the deal but here's half...
...that they are polluting nature. But a corporation has turned the tables and sued the environmentalists for libel. One year ago, Rick Webb, 31, coordinator of West Virginia Mountain Stream Monitors Project, an environmental group, charged in his sporadically produced newsletter that the strip-mine operation of the D.L.M. Coal Corp. of Buckhannon, W. Va., had "destroyed" seven miles of trout streams on the Buckhannon River as a result of sulfuric acid and iron poisoning. Webb's complaint helped result in a federal inspection and a pollution study of land near the mines by the Environmental Protection Agency...
...when he was 30, the wealthy Victorian Arthur Munby took upon himself a singular task: the detailed observation of women engaged in manual labor. Until his death in 1910, Munby faithfully made his rounds, traveling to Yorkshire fishing villages, to Welsh coal fields and, on occasion, to France and Belgium. The result of this avocation is a series of richly drawn portraits. Editor Michael Hiley has sifted through voluminous notes to provide a gallery of dustwomen, fishergirls, sackmakers, brickmakers and collier girls, complete with a sense of their accents, labor conditions, social attitudes, even the texture and color of their...
...purchase merely as a tax shelter, he got interested in building up what has become a globe-girdling enterprise with oil in the North Sea and Libya, an elaborate 20-year fertilizer deal with the Soviet Union and ownership in the U.S. of the Island Creek Coal Co., the nation's fourth largest producer...
...years from now, when depleted supplies--no matter how vigorous the exploration--will send shock waves through an economy even more deeply mired in crude. His dismissal of conservation as secondary shows that Reagan has little prescience, little desire even to consider the long-term. Increased emphasis on coal--also a finite resource, and the cause of acid rain to boot--and on nuclear energy (which has proved remarkably cost-inefficient, apocalyptic scenarios aside) show an unwillingness or inability to get a grip on the future destiny Reagan begs us to "recapture...