Word: virginia
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...turbulent has been the long-running strike of mineworkers against the A.T. Massey Coal Co. that it 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...
Since the miners struck last Oct. 1 after Massey and several other firms 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...
...obtain with his "secret" security clearance. Michael, who helped out at his father's detective agencies before joining the Navy, has been involved in the family spy business at least since 1983, after he had finished boot camp and was assigned to the Oceana Naval Air Station in Virginia Beach. When Michael mentioned to his father that he had seen some classified material, say prosecutors, the elder Walker replied that there was money to be made if he could deliver it. Says FBI Spokesman Bill Baker: "We don't see ideological motives. All we see is cash." John Walker...
...clerical collar, fake IDs and business cards, a .357 magnum pistol, a walking cane that contains a gun, another that conceals a dagger and yet a third that holds hidden vials. When authorities opened his safe-deposit box, No. 257 at a Norfolk branch of the Bank of Virginia, they found ten 100-oz. silver bars, currently worth some...
...away -- 30,000 light-years, or 180 quadrillion miles. The only way to discern its size and shape accurately was to employ a technique called VLBI (very long baseline interferometry). In 1983 the astronomers observed Sgr A* with six giant dish-shaped radio telescopes, one each in Massachusetts, West Virginia and Texas, and three in California. "In effect, the configuration of the telescopes gave us a 'lens' 3,000 miles in diameter," explains Astronomer Mark Reid of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Cambridge, Mass...