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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...constantly open during the strike, the trouble started in December when 300 striking miners showed up and asked Mineowner Ed Crooks to stop operations. Instead, he spent $6,000 on guns and ammunition to arm his 24 workers and hired half a dozen guards to keep watch. On the wall in the trailer that serves as the mine's office and command post, he kept four black AR-15 semiautomatic rifles. Don Powers, superintendent at Crooks' mine, calmly patted his own .357 Magnum revolver and asserted his view: "They got the right to strike if they want...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: That's What Guns Are For | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

...attacked in January, and twelve $50,000 coal trucks were destroyed. State police arrested 194 men, mostly miners from Indiana's U.M.W. District 11. Last week any visitor was met by at least three AR-15-armed guards. In his office, which still has holes in the wall from the ax attack of the U.M.W. toughs, B&M Owner Paul Teegarden kept a 9-mm Smith & Wesson automatic pistol on his desk and a 12-gauge shotgun on the wall. Said Teegarden, who lived in his office from the beginning of the strike: "If they come again they...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: That's What Guns Are For | 3/6/1978 | See Source »

Evidently, the Wall Street Journal still has a steady following: the perennial favorite, Economics 10, "Principles of Economics," held on to the number-one position by a wide margin...

Author: By Robert O. Boorstin, | Title: Not Quite Breaking Their Backs | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

...been the case for the last three weeks, Harvard will have its back against the wall, as the icemen attempt 1) to avoid a losing season for the first time since the 1966-67 campaign, and first under Coach Billy Cleary and 2) to win a game without the services of the talented Hughes Brothers and winger Murray Dea, all of whom were suspended for the final game following the donnybrook with...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Squash, Hockey Teams Finish This Weekend | 3/4/1978 | See Source »

...mean H.R. "Bob" Nazi crew-cut Medusa-eyed s.o.b. Berlin Wall Lord High Executioner Haldeman...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: "I've Finally Figured Out Haldeman's Secret... He Keeps An Inflatable Woman In His Briefcase." | 3/2/1978 | See Source »

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