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...addition, Queen's presence in Geneva will make it easy for him to open a Swiss Bank Account for funds derived from the impoundment of Iranian holdings in the U.S. As the first American released, Queen will have his pick of oil wells in Texas, coal mines in Wyoming, or a deluxe embassy mission in Washington...
...reduce their dependence on foreign oil. They promised to double the production and use of coal by the end of the decade, though officials in both Europe and the U.S. are skeptical about whether this can be done because of environmental restrictions and the high cost of converting industrial plants from oil to coal. The seven leaders also declared that the "role of nuclear energy has to be increased if world energy needs...
Since Congress enacted legislation compensating coal miners disabled by black lung disease a decade ago, more than $9 billion in benefits have been paid to them or their survivors. Yet the federal program is still a matter of hot dispute. The United Mine Workers says that the Government is not generous enough; critics complain of a giveaway. Last week the controversy was fueled anew by a skeptical medical report...
...University of West Virginia Medical Center in the coal-mining center of Morgantown, Dr. W. Keith Morgan and his colleagues examined 200 miners who had claimed black lung benefits. Only eight qualified by existing compensation criteria; they had somewhat impaired breathing ability. Even so, none showed any indication of progressive massive fibrosis, a stiffening of lung tissue that doctors regard as the true sign of permanent disability...
Morgan notes that the eight miners were smokers or ex-smokers and suggests that tobacco, not coal dust, was the real culprit. In an editorial accompanying the report in the Journal of the American Medical Association, Editor William Barclay is even blunter: "The taxpayer will be penalized twice; first in subsidizing those who grow tobacco and then in compensating coal miners who smoke tobacco...