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...done learned my lesson. The hard way." RANDAL MCCLOY JR., Sago Mine survivor, at a press conference before going home from a rehab center last week, on whether he would return to mining...
...sole survivor of the Sago Mine explosion on Jan. 2 that killed 12 other coal miners, Randal McCloy Jr., 26, is making "miraculous" strides, his doctors say. Still undergoing therapy at a rehab center in Morgantown, W.Va., McCloy--brain damaged from inhaling carbon monoxide for more than 40 hours--can walk with help and speaks well enough to ask for hamburgers, says family spokeswoman Aly Goodwin Gregg. McCloy--below, with daughter Isabel before the accident--made his first visit home last week and feasted on ribs. He should be well enough to go home for good in two weeks, says...
...said there were no more survivors-and rescuers at the surface, listening through a scratchy connection, had misunderstood. "They managed to turn this town upside down", said Terry Hinchman, a boyhood friend of a deceased miner, Fred Ware Jr., and cousin of another, Marty Bennett. The only survivor: Ronald McCloy, age 23, the youngest of the group. Taken to Ruby Hospital in Morgantown, he was listed in serious condition...
Ways to avoid dropping the Bomb were never really a matter of discussion. At one White House meeting in June, Stimson's assistant John McCloy suggested that Japan be issued a warning about the weapon and offered surrender terms that allowed the retention of the Emperor. McCloy's goal, however, was not so much to prevent the Bomb from being dropped as to avoid the need for the invasion being planned at the meeting. The secrecy surrounding the device known as S-1 was so pervasive that a hush quickly fell over the room and exploration of the options...
...Cuban missile confrontation was the whole watershed. The Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister [Vasili] Kuznetsov told John McCloy, who had been Kennedy's disarmament adviser, 'We agreed to pull out, but you Americans will never be able to do this to us again.' "After that began the massive Soviet buildup of nuclear arms." We had a policy of building 1,000 weapons, and we thought that if they built up to 1,000 as well, that would be all right, a standoff. What happened is that they didn't stop at 1,000. That is the situation that confronted me when...