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...recalls the Hatfield-McCoy feud in the same region, around the West Virginia-Kentucky line. Now the conflict, involving some 1,500 members of the United Mine Workers, is evoking even uglier images. "It's almost like a civil war," said ex-Mayor Robert McCoy of Matewan, W. Va. Hayes West, a nonunion truck driver, was killed and another driver wounded when snipers opened fire on a convoy on Coeburn Mountain in Kentucky; three other drivers have been wounded in similar ambushes...
...rejected an industry agreement, hundreds of injuries have resulted from rock throwings, dynamitings and assaults. West Virginia state police have spent about $750,000 in extra manpower to try to keep peace. Said a miner in the picket line at Massey's Sprouse Creek processing plant in Lobata, W. Va.: "If something isn't done real soon to end the strike, there is going to be a lot more violence...
...concrete, stacks of silver bars stashed in a safe-deposit box, hints of meetings in Europe and the Far East, and canes that become guns and daggers. There is even a woman who turns in her former husband. In hundreds of pages of documents, unsealed last week in Norfolk, Va., authorities describe how three members of a naval family allegedly schemed to supply U.S. military secrets to the Soviet Union, resulting in what Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger calls a "serious loss" for the country...
...carrier Nimitz who had been arrested the week before and charged with espionage. The next day the FBI arrested John Walker's brother Arthur, 50, a retired Navy lieutenant commander who once taught antisubmarine tactics and has been working as an engineer for a defense-contracting firm in Chesapeake, Va. He was charged with supplying to his brother classified documents for delivery to Soviet agents...
Ronald Reagan has a folksy, homespun manner, but neither his policies nor his life-style quite conveys the image of a populist President. Yet there he was on national TV last week and in Colonial Williamsburg, Va., Oshkosh, Wis., and Malvern, Pa., assailing a tax code that "runs roughshod over Main Street America" and calling for an end to "unproductive tax shelters, so that no one will be able to hide in the havens privilege builds." Looking ever more fit and sounding ever more feisty, Reagan relished being back on the road, taking the offense in pursuit of the boldest...