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...mountains soaring over the Tug Fork Valley of West Virginia near the Kentucky border would not, at first glance, suspect that a combat zone was at hand. Yet for more than a century, bloody civil strife has roiled the 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...
...strike pits some 1,500 members of the United Mine Workers against the A.T. Massey Coal Co. Violence has become almost monotonous. In the latest incident, a midnight explosion last week rocked the three-story brick district headquarters of the U.M.W. in Pikeville, Ky., incidentally shattering a huge portrait of the late union leader John L. Lewis that hung on the wall. The strike has produced one death, hundreds of injuries and more than a thousand episodes of rock throwing, smashed windshields and punctured tires. Gunfire has been commonplace. Snipers killed a nonunion coal-truck driver, Hayes West...
...GIACOMO, 3, a gray son of Holy Bull and a 50-to-1 long shot; the 131st Kentucky Derby; in Louisville, Ky. The colt, named by its record-producer owner after Sting's 9-year-old son, had finished first in just one race before last Saturday, when he became the horse with the second worst odds ever to win the Derby, trailing only Donerail's 91-to-1 feat...
...everyone is building a home from scratch. Some would rather spiff up an existing residence. Karen Spiker, 58, a Louisville, Ky., art-gallery consultant, undertook a renovation in a home she plans to stay in for a while. Even though her two children, ages 34 and 23, are out of the house, she had a pent-up desire for a spacious home. She and husband Phillip, 56, a pilot, had moved eight times over their 26-year marriage, while he served in the U.S. Air Force. That meant living in military housing or renting or owning small homes nearby. After...
...DIED. VU KY, 84, former personal secretary and confidante of 24 years to Vietnamese leader Ho Chi Minh; in Hanoi. Born to civil servant parents, Ky joined anti-French revolutionary movements as a student in Hanoi, and joined Ho after the August Revolution of 1945, in which Ho declared Vietnam's independence from France. Ky was said to have witnessed Ho writing his will and testament and was trusted to keep the documents from 1965 until the leader's death four years later...