Word: pittsburgh
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...Sierra Club's changing its position on wilderness preservation. But the minority of N.A.A.C.P. members who believe that integration is undesirable or--in cities led by black elected officials--unnecessary will be casting a longer shadow than usual as the organization meets for its annual convention in Pittsburgh this week. N.A.A.C.P. elders prefer to see the airing of these ideas as a therapeutic exercise. "What we're trying to do is give these people respect, let them voice out their frustration, and then we state our position and move on," says Melvin ("Skip") Alston, president of the N.A.A.C.P.'s North...
...been brought to the church with the knowledge that he would be lifted up into life. Memory of that remarkable moment makes it especially painful for me to read about babies who are not given any chance for life. (The Rev.) RAYMOND MICHAEL UTZ St. Susanna Church Pittsburgh...
Until the beginning of this year, Consolidation Coal Group of Pittsburgh, owner of the Potomac mines, had a contract to sell 1.5 million tons of coal a year to Virginia Power. Mettiki, the only other high-volume producer in the area, had a contract for a million tons, including some extracted from right beneath Highway 50. With both contracts due to expire on Jan. 1, the utility saw a chance to pit the two against each other in an all-or-nothing bid to be the plant's major coal supplier. It asked both Consol and Mettiki...
...years, Jones has doggedly defended McVeigh, and he may have played the hand dealt him as best he could. "Before anyone should say Jones has done a bad job, you have to consider what he has to work with," says Welsh White, a law professor at the University of Pittsburgh who has followed the trial. "The prosecution does have a strong case, and I think they've presented it well. Jones has to try what's available...
Gingrich has broken faith with all the American people with a frivolous response to his $300,000 liability. It is time for him to relinquish the Speakership of the House. He is not a leader worthy of our trust and confidence. OREN M. SPIEGLER Pittsburgh...