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...legislators took into conference committee a bill, passed by the Senate and weakened by the House, that would ban strip mining in 36 still unspoiled counties for one year and limit its growth elsewhere in the state. The battle started last December, when State Secretary John D. Rockefeller IV promoted a bill to abolish surface mining "completely and forever." He was supported by well-organized citizens' groups and the state's underground miners, who want to keep their jobs. But leaders of the United Mine Workers and the coal industry raised key objections. For one, strip mining...
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Divinity School deferments (IV-D) are also scheduled to be abolished, although students enrolled prior to January 29, 1971, will not be affected...
...obdurate Swiss won several crucial battles for him). Nearly always he preferred to bargain or bribe. Overconfidence in his talking powers sometimes got him into trouble. But because he knew his opponents better than they knew themselves, he generally came out ahead. He dealt with Edward IV's invasion by conning him into withdrawing his troops. "My father drove them out by force of arms," Louis later bragged, "whereas I've driven them out by force of venison pies and good wines...
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