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...region embraced by Mingo County, W. Va., and Pike County, Ky. There in the late 1800s, the Hatfield and McCoy families began a feud so lethal and long that it became legend. Then in 1920 the early struggles of the region's coal miners to unionize exploded into a fray that left nine people dead and is still remembered as "the Matewan massacre." Now the area around the same little town of Matewan (pop. 822) is living up to its turbulent reputation: a coal miners' strike that is now in its eleventh month is well on the way to becoming...
...Cinema A Chorus Line, Santa Claus, Rocky's fourth fray and a Sherlock Holmes fantasy add up to bad news for Christmas from Tinseltown...
...school-board meetings whenever the sex-education curriculums come up for review. Last year, for example, when New York City developed a program designed to help combat a runaway rate of teenage pregnancy, religious groups presented a list of 56 objections. In middleclass San Juan Capistrano, Calif., the fray over sex-education reform grew so heated last spring that conservative opponents showed up at a school-board meeting dressed in Revolutionary War garb and bearing a cannon...
...Republican leader, was a master at putting a soothing arm on colleagues' shoulders to achieve cloakroom compromises. In 1984 he decided to retire from the battle to position himself better for 1988. Dole, while philosophically similar, has an altogether different temperament that keeps him in the midst of the fray. Driven by his own strong ideas, he is more prone than Baker to do battle rather than seek consensus when disputes erupt. "Howard," Dole concedes, "was a bit more careful than I am in saying, 'Now boys, what can we do to work this...
...tactics worked in 1984 to re-elect Helms in a close victory over then North Carolina Governor James Hunt, this time they may backfire. Broyhill has long represented the state's traditional Republicans, while Funderburk has never run for public office. The Congressman has tried to remain above the fray, refusing even to debate his opponent. Broyhill is still the front runner, but with only 20% of North Carolina's nearly 800,000 Republicans expected to vote in the primary, the decision could be close. The true winner could be the Democrats, who hope that after the G.O.P.'s spring...