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...Anglo American Corp., the nation's largest mining company, then proceeded to fire some 38,000 strikers, bringing the total of dismissed employees to 45,000. The firm also pledged to sack an additional 16,000 this week if they did not return to work. Meanwhile, a black coal miner who had refused to go on strike was found stabbed and burned to death. The next day security police shot and killed two strikers in a clash near Johannesburg...
Within the mine sites, companies go to extreme lengths to preserve their profits. Each miner is watched at all times by two technicians and an armed security guard. The emeralds are typically put into large leather or canvas bags, which are locked in a combination safe and held up to 24 hours until a helicopter from Bogota, about 60 miles to the south, can take away the jewels...
...increase, compared with hikes of 15% to 23% granted by the Chamber of Mines, which represents the six largest employers. Until now, according to the union, the average black worker has made $170 a month, while employers claimed the figure was $274. Both sides agreed that the average black miner earns only about one-fifth as much as the average white miner...
...onetime auto mechanic who grew up in Andover, Mass., Leno began his comedy career playing strip clubs in Boston. Among his earliest gigs were a bordello in Dorchester, Mass., and a club called the Mineshaft, where audience members wore miner's hats with flashlights on top ("Performing there was like being interrogated by the police," he recalls). Leno eventually graduated to the big time, and in recent years has played a grueling 300 road dates a year, besides making frequent guest appearances with Letterman...
...plenty of other battles and causes he's ready and willing to sign on with. Last Friday in New York City, for instance, the performed in a benefit show for medical aid to Nicaragua. And the proceeds of a recent project, an LP entitled Wake Up, will go the miner's defense campaign in England...