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Among the most militant of the striking mine workers are the 25,000 members of District 17. Many of them live in the vicinity of Cabin Creek Hollow, a group of small frame houses and mobile homes along a narrow, twisting road in the hills of southern West Virginia. On the eve of the strike last December, a Cabin Creek miner defiantly told TIME Correspondent Robert Wurmstedt that he and his neighbors were prepared to stay out of the pits until "she freezes over." Last week Wurmstedt revisited the hollow and found that 2½ months without paychecks has caused...
...patients free on Tuesday evenings, the clinic's patient load had dropped by half. Says Administrator Margaret Light: "They're a lot sicker when they come in now." The strike also caused pensions, ranging from $225 to $250 a month, to be suspended for most of the hollow's retired miners. The pensions are financed by company-paid royalties of 55.4? for every ton of coal produced and 70 per man-hour worked when the mines are open...
...designed as a textbook cloak-and-dagger intelligence operation. Clandestine meetings were arranged by passing filmed instructions that were stuffed inside a hollow stick or in a specially designed pack of Marlboro cigarettes. There were coded passwords and complex secret-signal systems. Using these elaborate precautions, the Soviet mission in Ottawa must have felt secure as KGB agents within the embassy seemed to have recruited a spy from Canada's equivalent of the FBI, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. For nine months, in fact, a Mountie had pocketed KGB bribes totaling $30,500 in exchange for what appeared...
Otis and Marlena vacation in Miami, looking for pleasure and relaxation. But it's a lie: their attempt is hollow...
...Compassion," (an intellectualized version of the Pistols' "No Feelings") Byrne derides artificial complexities in a chilling statement of apathy. "Compassion is a virtue, but I don't have the time," he sings in his hollow tenor; "What are you, in love with your problems?" Not only is Byrne empty, but he despises those who try to fill their emptiness up with phony difficulties...