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...meet progressed, the Crimson steel proved true as Dan Sullivan broke a three-way tie for first place in the high-jump by winning on fewer misses, and mountain-climber Geoff Stiles left his Princeton Sherpa guides behind with a 14-ft.,-6-in. ascent in the pole vault...
Last year Cuban military assistance enabled the Marxist guerrilla faction in Angola to win out in a three-way civil war. Last week it appeared likely that a band of soldiers, with the blessing of the Angolans and the Cubans, was on the brink of a sudden new victory in Zaïre (formerly the Congo). Their apparent aim: the republic's copper-mining region, one of the treasures of Africa...
...cause of this latest rumble is the U.M.W.'s presidential election, which is scheduled for June. In a three-way campaign that is already getting heated, Miller is running for re-election against Union Secretary-Treasurer Harry Patrick and U.M.W. International Board Member Lee Roy Patterson. Patrick, 46, a voluble, fiery fourth-generation miner from Monongah, W. Va., ran with Miller on the reform ticket in 1972 and represents the progressive wing of the union. Though he came to office without bookkeeping experience or a high school education, he is credited with putting the U.M.W.'s ledgers...
...ranchers and farmers want Jimmy Carter's Administration to help in some areas, they emphatically want it to leave them alone in others. Outside Del Rey. Calif.. Harold Shidan, 57, a stocky raisin grower, faulted Carter for endorsing the state's unsuccessful attempt to settle the three-way labor battle between the growers, the Teamsters Union and Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers. The proposal that Carter supported would have permitted union organizers to campaign on growers' property and would have mandated secret elections for union representation. Shidan griped that he has had to pull...
WEST VIRGINIA. Fourth District-Incumbent Ken Hechler (D) v. Nick Joe Rahall (D) and E.S. Goodman (R): after losing gubernatorial bid, Hechler faces tough three-way fight as a write...