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...when only 40,000 of the nation's 189,000 N.U.M. members were working, more than 63,000 are now back at their jobs, according to the government's National Coal Board. Hundreds more are returning every day. "Follow me on the road to sanity," urged John Cunningham, a longtime local officer of the N.U.M. in Northumberland, as he went back to work on Nov. 19, one of 2,282 to do so that day. "These strike leaders are hell-bent on destruction...
...Bill Croner (R) 212.217 23 Oregon Marge Hendrikson (D) 71.992 34 28 E--Mark Hatheld (R) 140 713 66 Rhode Island E--Claiborne Pell (D) 276.245 73 99 Barbara Leonard (R) 103.294 27 South Carolina Melvin Purvis (D) 224.111 32 73 Thurmond (R) 464.279 66 South Dakota George Cunningham (D) 47,129 26 61 E--Barry Pressler (R) 134 720 74 Tennesee E--Albert Gore Jr. (D) 959,238 60 97 Victor Ashe (R) 545,432 34 Texas David Doggett (D) 1,384,033 41 Gramm (R) 1,985,818 59 Virginia (D) 577,611 30 97 John Warner...
Curiously, the she-soldiers seemed to have aroused the least disapproval in the male. The Calvinist Lady Ann Cunningham was a formidable warrior for Scotland, riding at the head of a troop of horses with a case of pistols attached to her saddle and daggers at her girdle. It was the "learned woman" that terrified both the learned and unlearned men around her. The prevailing opinion, according to the 17th century writer Hannah Woolley, found that a woman was "learned ... enough if she can distinguish her Husband's bed from another...
...scheme to address the demand for a separate Indian identity. "We want the Miskitos to organize and elect representatives who can tell us their thoughts," explains William Ramirez, the Sandinista commander of the Miskito region. In June the Sandinistas for the first time named a Miskito, Myrna Cunningham, 36, as civilian governor of North Zelaya province, the Indian heartland...
Last month 300 delegates convened at Puerto Cabezas to organize a regional Indian council that is ostensibly designed to give the Miskitos a recognized political voice. Says Cunningham: "I think people are ready for the responsibility." The trouble is that the new council shows signs of being a consultative "mass organization," without legislative power. The Miskitos are not likely to accept such a cosmetic institution in exchange for the rest of their identity...