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Another impediment to a settlement has been the fact that the longer the strike continues the better it looks for the miners. Until recently they had endured all the hardship, but now they see only too clearly that the operators and the rest of the country are beginning to share in their suffering. So hardly a miner seems disposed to give in. The men and women who perform some of life's grimmest labor under ground are not likely to be pushovers up above. "Some of us saw the strike coming a long way off," says Lou Kovach...
Ironically enough, the Beyond the Fringe troupe winds up stealing the show in this movie. Perhaps the high point of the film comes when a lanky, ill-dressed chap recounts the many reasons why he would rather be a judge than a coal miner. While in the midst of discussing the routine of a miner's life down in the pits, the deadpanning prole notes the boring conversations that go on in the mines...
Attired in a poorly fitting trench coat and bright red sneakers, the glazy-eyed miner presents us with an object for our compassion as well as our amusement; his sphinx-like expression never once breaks into an unprofessional grin, unlike his colleagues in the Monty Python group during some of their other skits...
...Sale's sister and her husband, the Byrds, who moved to Stotesbury, W. Va., when he was four. Renamed and unaware that he was adopted, Byrd met his real father for the first ?and last?time when he was 15. His adoptive mother, wife of a coal miner, was a strict disciplinarian. "I never remember her kissing me," Byrd recalls, "except once." Young Byrd had misbehaved?he no longer recalls the transgression?but resourcefully came up with a ploy. Says he: "I asked her to kiss me. She did, and didn't whip...
First stop was Poland, which provided Carter with a Communist forum for reaffirming his stand on human rights. Polish Party Chief Edward Gierek, a former coal miner, warmly greeted the President at a remote area of Okecie Airport, but then slyly made a pre-emptive strike on his guest's issue. Said Gierek: "To the people of Poland, which has so dreadfully experienced the atrocities of war, security is the supreme value; while life and peace are the fundamental rights...