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...fact, Jenkins was born in Wales, the son of an ambitious coal miner who was later a Labor M.P. But to counter the carpetbagging label, Jenkins sounded a decidedly Scottish note in his campaign speeches as time went on. He pledged that he would spend "the rest of my political life" representing Hillhead, and that he would not dash away to a safer English constituency at the first chance to move south. He supported the granting of greater autonomy for Scotland, including the formation of a regional assembly with authority to tax and with substantial legislative power. Jenkins pledged...
MSHA has not yet issued its findings on the Mink Branch tragedy, but Commissioner Stanley, a former miner, thinks that the blasting ignited coal dust suspended in the dank, clammy shaft. "We were very surprised by some of the things we saw in there," Stanley says. "The whole situation was very improper...
...lots of places around here," says Miner Roy Phillips of Neon, Ky., "those doghole mines are the only things you can make a living at. It's not greed, it's survival." Yet the manager of one huge Kentucky mine finds that trade-off untenable. Says he: "This isn't like mom-and-pop stores any more. If we continue to pretend that it is, the price will be paid in miners' lives...
Glemp, 53, the plain-spoken son of an Inowroclaw salt miner, is well prepared for that task. The holder of doctorates in Roman and canon law, he has a shrewd political sense that belies his squat, jug-eared physical appearance. Glemp apparently intends to pursue a cautious policy under martial law, putting moral pressure on the regime but avoiding inflammatory gestures that might incite violence and provoke a Soviet invasion...
...body that moves through his soft-shoe number like a Slinky on an escalator-develops a strong personality. Visually too Pennies is of two minds: Ken Adam's precisely gaudy sets need megawatt illumination, but Cinematographer Gordon Willis keeps most of the lighting as morose as a coal miner's funeral. Perhaps this was not the project on which to lavish so many MGM millions. The BBC show was an enchanted cottage; this is the Las Vegas Grand Hotel...