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English firemen patrol a street in the Brixton area of South London yesterday after Saturday night's riots, in which 97 policemen
were injured and 70 people were arrested. Shops and homes were looted and a school was set on fire during the disturbance.
UMW tells industry: give in'
•• By The Associated Press members went on strike March 27 when the old contract
United Mine Workeis officials' said yesterday the coal expired.
• industry must give in to the union's contract demands or coal Scattered picketing continued yesterday, but the coalfields
. . miners will stay on strike. were quiet following earlier reports of violence in Kentucky,
Negotiators for the Bituminous Coal Operators Association Ohio and Virginia.
' and the UMW have agreed to resume talks tomorrow in UMW officials said the industry must make three key
Washington. changes in its proposal before the Bargaining Council accepts
"I'm not too optimistic" about an early end to the 18-day-old another contract to send to the rank and file for ratification.
strike, said Ed Bell, president of UMW District 6 in Ohio and Jack Perry, president of Charleston, W.Va.-based District
northern West Virginia. 17, said the $1.90 a ton royalty on non-union coal processed by
UMW companies must be reinstated, the language dealing with
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• leasing and subleasing of mines needs strengthening to spell
out UMW jurisdiction, and a 45-day probationary period for
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:' 'The miners want the right working new employees will have to be dropped. The royalty money
goes into the union's health and retirement fund.
; - situation. They're not
. going to settle "Unless he (Brown) makes those changes, it will be an
:" for the stuff that came back last , exercise in futility," Perry said. "Meeting and negotiating are
two different things. There might be exchange, but whether it's
time.' . . fruitful or not would be another matter. The proposal sent down
• ' was rejected in a fashion that indicates changes need to be
made." •
—Bill Compton, president of Local
2264= in Pike County, Ky.
Bill Compton, president of Local 2264 in Pike County, Ky.,
agreed: "The miners want the right working situation. They're
not going to settle for the stuff that came back last time."
Burdette Crowe, president of District 31 at Fairmont, W.Va.,
said that if the BCOA remains firm during the talks, the strike
A similar opinion was expressed Saturday by B.R. Brown,
will dragon. But, he added, "I'm hopeful, of course; that it isn't
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Papers say U.S. crew negligent
Iy RICHARD PYLE . men of the 6,800-ton submarine USS nese government there was no 'cause for
Associated Press Writer, George Washington "failed to show concern" about possible radioactive
• TOKYO (AP) Japanese n ewspapers seamanship" after the sub collided with leakage from the submarine, which is
charged yesterday that a 'U.S. nuclear the freighter Nissho Maru last Thursday. equipped to carry nuclear r •tipped Polaris
submarine crew acted irresponSibly by The Nissho Maru survivors said the missiles.
not trying to rescue Japanese survivors submarine surfaced soon after the colli- • Mainichi newspaper said yesterday
of a cargo ship after the two craft col- sion, but submerged again and vanished, that Japan was "caught in the midst of
Tided in the East China Sea. A U.S. propellor-driven plane circled the severe struggles between the naval
U.S. officials have conveyed their apol- 'twice overhead but also failed to respond. forces of the two giant nuclear powers
ogies for the accident and reported that , to their distress signals, they said. ( th e United States and the Soviet Union)
an initial search for survivors yielded The collision in heavily traveled ship- in the Pacific Ocean. "
nothing. They ~also said there was no ping lanes 110 miles off the southern tip
radiation leakage. . of Japan split the hull of the 2,350-ton Last August a mysterious fire disabled
The Yorniuri newspaper called it "de- freighter, which sank within 15 minutes, a Soviet nuclear submarine off of Okina
plorable" and "incomprehensible" that survivors said. The ship's captain and wa, killing nine crewmen.
the U.S. Navy did not report the collision chief engineer apparently drowned after A Defense Agency spokesman reported
to Japanese authorities for almost 36 the accident, and 13 crewmen were res- Sunday that five Soviet naval ships were
hours. It suggested the delay may have cued by a Japanese destroyer after seen cruising northward about 90 miles
contributed to the apparent deaths of the spending 20 hours in rubber life rafts. southwest of Okinawa. The ships, spotted
freighter's captain and one crewman, U.S. Navy spokesmen said the subma- by a patrol plane, were believed heading
missing since the accident Thursday. rine reported the collision and surfaced, for the Soviet port. of Vladivostok or
It called the subfflarine's action "hit- but did not see the ship or survivors Vietnam, the agency spokesman said.
and-run," and said it was contrary to because of fog and rain. In Moscow, the official Soviet news
"the spirit of fair play respected' by the U.S. Ambassador• Mike Mansfield pre- agency Tass said "a wave of indignation
American people." sented a formal apology Saturday at the in Japan has been aroused by the piratic
The Tokyo daily Asahi said the crew- Poreign Ministry and assured the Japa- actions of the U.S. submarine."
.. News Briefs
Brady's recover
called 'brighter'
WASHINGTON (UPI) White House
Press Secretary James Brady, recov
ering from a gunshot wound in the head,
yesterday "appeared a little brighter . . .
and continues to recover satisfactorily,"
his doctors said.
Brady, 40, was hit by a bullet in the
March 30 assassination attempt on Pre
sidnt Reagan. He was expected to re
main in George Washington University
Medical Center for another month or so.
His doetors said he had no temperature
yesterday and there are "no signs of any
complications."
Former Nazi close
to death, son says
BERLIN (UPI) Former Nazi leader
Rudolph Hess, the one-time deputy and
private secretary to Adolf Hitler, is se
riously ill with pneumonia but the Allied
powers refuse to reveal his true condi
tion, his son said yesterday.
Wolf Ruediger Hero, a Munich ar
chitect, said the condition of his 86-year
old father had so deteriorated that he
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The young Hess accused. the Ameri
cans, British, French and Russians who
run the Spandau war crimes prison of
concealing the gravity of his father's
illness.
He said he did not trust Allied reports
of his father's condition, and would try to
get into Berlin's British military hospital
today to see him.
Hess, the last remaining inmate of
Spandau, is allowed only one visitor a
month, usually his wife Ilse.
Hess, who will be 87 on April 26, was
taken to the hospital April 7 from Span
dau, where he is serving a life term.
"I have received reliable information
that my father's condition deteriorated
so much that on Saturday it was feared
he would not survive the day," the son
said in telegrams sent yesterday to the
British hospital, the prison and to Ber
lin's American commander.
When Hess was taken to the hospital
April 7, the four powers said it was for
"routine medical checks." Three days
later they admitted he had had the flu,
which developed into pneumonia in the
right lung. They said then there was no
crisis and Hess was responding to treat
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Hinson's resignation
takes effect today
JACKSON, Miss. (AP) Rep. Jon
Hinson's resignation from office because
of his arrest on a sodomy charge in a
Washington restroom becomes effective
at the close of congressional business
today.
Mississippi's 4th District will be with
out representation in the House of Rep
resentatives until a special election June
23 to choose someone to fill out the 21
months left in the Republican congress
man's term.
Hinson sent a 26-word note to Gov.
William Winter March 13, notifying him
of his intention to resign because of the
arrest Feb. 4. Hinson later pleaded inno
cent to a reduced misdemeanor charge of
attempted oral sodomy.
Titanic chinaware
stolen from museum
LOS ANGELES (AP) The only
known piece of china recovered from the
sunken Titanic was stolen during an
exhibit marking the 69th anniversary of
the sinking of the liner, an official said
Riots continue in
By ED BLANCHE warned, "The trouble is off the streets
Associated Press Writer for the moment, but this area is seething.
LONDON (AP) Violent clashes be- Feeling against the police is running
tween blacks and police erupted yester- very high."
day for the second straight night in the In Saturday night's riots, some 40 vehi-
Brixton district of south London, hours ties were set afire, including several
after police sealed off the burned and police - cars. Police said nearly every
looted neighborhood and angry youths store and business in central Brixton was
jeered touring Home Secretary William damaged or destroyed and scores of
Whitelaw. businesses were looted. Thirty buildings,
A police spokesman said the rioters' including a department store, a church, a
were attacking police "with anything school and two bars, were completely
they can get their hands on" and de- gutted.
scribed the clashes as "very violent." Witnesses said the violence occurred
The new fighting broke out after more after two white detectives stopped and
than 1,000 police officers cordoned off searched a black taxi driver in Brixton's
much of the working-class district follow- Ftailton Road, known locally as "the
ing Saturday's violence, among the worst front line" after earlier clashes. between
racial violence to erupt in Britain since blacks=and London's overwhelmingly
World War IL • white police force.
Scotland Yard said at least 194 people, Rene Webb, a West Indian who is a
165 of them pence, were injured by rocks, former chairman of Lambeth Commu
gasoline bombs and bottles hurled in nity Relations Council, said, "This has
running street battles and attacks on set the cause of race relations in south
police, medics and firemen. London back 20 years. These kids are
Angry young blacks screamed "Sieg furious with the police and will carry on
Heil" and gave clenched-fist salutes as until the cops go home."
Whitelaw toured the smoldering and rub- London Police Commissioner Sir Da
ble-strewn streets ringed by a posse of vid McNee claimed that "troublemakers
police officers earlier in the day. from elsewhere" provoked the worst of
A grim -faced Whitelaw voiced "ex- the violence.
treme distress and horrer" at the six But non-white community leaders said
hours of fierce rioting that ripped the unrest was caused by "heavy-handed
through the rundown ghetto Saturday tactics" by - police. "Brixton has been
night. walking the knife-edge for some time,"
Leaders in the community, largely said Courtney Laws of the Brixton Neigh
populated by West Indians, had pre- borhood Community Association.
dieted the heavy police presence would Laws added, "I saw no evidence of
provoke new violence. outside political• extremists, but I
Police officers, including units from wouldn't be so naive as to say that none
the crack Special Patrol Group fast-reac- of these young people were not politically
tion force, sealed off a six-block zone motivated."
where the worst of the violence occurred, Community relations officials said the
halting all traffic into the area. rioting in Brixton was among the worst
A West Indian community leader since large-scale non-white immigration
UPI wlrophoto
Liberia marks coup date
By SUSAN LINNEE nation .in 1980 to almost $24 million, and ment'officials were shot by a firing squad' ,
Adsociated Press Writer has allocated almost $33 million in aid for shortly afterward.
MONROVIA, Liberia (AP) Master 1:•:1.
Sgt. Samuel K. Doe, Africa's youngest Sawyer, a former candidate for mayor . ,
head of state, marked the first anniver- Doe, 29, named Liberian University of Monrovia, had previously challenged a
nary yesterday of his successful coup by Professor Amos Sawyer to head a 25- clause in the old constitution that made
authorizing the creation of a new consti- member commission to draft a constitu- property ownership a requirement for
tution and the release of 19 political tion to replace the one he said favored the voter eligibility. The clause autornatical
prisoners.
former ruling descendentS of freed ly excluded the-majority tribal AfricanS
American slaves who founded Liberia in in favor of the Americo-Liberians, who
In an anniversary speech, Doe also 1882. represent about 5 percent Of Liberia's 1.8 - 'A.
singled out the United States for "special • million population. '-''
thanks" for what he termed "unprece-
Doe suspended the constitution after he
dented" assistance to his young govern-
and 16 fellow enlisted men overthrew the Doe extended an invitation to all "well- •::
ment. government of President Williani, Tol- • intentioned" Liberians to return home,
bert Jr. on April 12, 1980 following an apparent reference to the estimated
The United States . more than doubled months of sporadic food riots. Tolbert 6,000 Americo-Liberians who reportedly :
its overall assistance to this West African . was killed during the coup and 13 govern- fled the country after the coup.
Maxim Shostakovich, 42, son of the
late Soviet composer Dimitri Shosta
kovich, has defected to the West and
asked for political asylum, police in
Fuerth, West Germany, said.
yesterday.
The demitasse saucer, about 4 inches
in diameter and worth between $20,000
and $25,000, was taken from its glass case
Saturday night while about 200 people
were at a presentation sponsored by the
Oceanic • Navigation Research Society,
Charles Sachs, its president and founder,
said.
Sachs said the piece was the "high
light" display among a variety of mem
orabilia, and belonged Barrie R. Davis,
one of the society's officers.
A theft report was filed with the Los
Angeles Police Department's Central
Division.
"It is a tragic loss for maritime histori
ans," Sachs said.
There was no guard watching the case,
he said, adding, "We thought the exhibit
case, with a heavy glass cover, would be
sufficient. We didn't think anyone would
steal it."
Sachs said the saucer was saved by a
dining steward who was setting ,the
breakfast table in the first-class section
and put it in his pocket when the first
alarm was sounded.
The piece has gold and turquoise trim
and in the center has "White Star Line"
in gold lettering. White Star was the
British company that owned the steam
er.
Army official asks
for poison gas use
FORT McCLELLAN, Alit. (AP) The
head of the Army's Chemical School at
Fat McClellan has asked for permission
to use real poison gas in training soldiers
to protect themselves against chemical
warfare.
Brig. Gen. Gerald G. Watson said in an
interview published yesterday , in The
Birmingham News that since the school
was re-established in 1979, about 5,000
soldiers have been trained to protect
themselves from poison gas by using
smoke or other agents, such as tear gas.
But Watson says the training is not
realistic enough and that soldiers will not
have confidence in their own skills and
equipment on the battleground if they
don't prove them on the training ground.
He said soldiers used to train with real
gas and chemicals:
He is proposing a training center, at an
estimated cost of $5 million, that would
include a double-walled building de
signed to keep the gases from escaping
into the atmosphere.
Lt. Col. Roland R. Holcomb, assistant
commandant of the Chemical School,
said that even if all of the facility's
chemicals escaped, no one off the base
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began in 1948. The last major racially
related rioting in Britain.occurredin
southwestern port city of Bristol in April .
1980. •
But there has been trouble in a dozen
British cities• in recent months as racial
tension worsened with growing tuiem
ployment. Blacks leaders charge there '
has been an upsurge of police ha 7,
rassment and assaults on blacks.
Community leaders have predicted foF, ‘ .
months that violence would erupt
Brixton, a rundown ghetto area where . ..
half the young blacks are unOmployed,-
housing is poor and street crime is rising
sharply.
"Over the last few years things have
beeli boiling up until it just boiled over,";
declared Laws, one of Brixton's most..
respected ' black leaders. "What hap-
pened was the culmination of issues of
frustration, unemployment, homelesd,
snags, alienation p and confrontation with
the police."
There are 1.9 million non-whites
Britain, about 3.2 percent of the 56 mit-
lion population
Tension was already high in Brixton
after police clashed with 100 yOungel,
blacks there Friday when patrolmen.l , :
picked up a West Indian who had been .v
stabbed.
Police responded by moving in re='' ` •
including units of the Spe-'
cial Patrol Group, a mobile 1,000-man 5 '
force used to quell riots and sweep high
crime areas.
Ted Knight, leader of Lambeth Bo:
rough Council which controls Brixton, o
warned last January that relations ber.,,,
tween blacks and police were at "break-..";
ing point" because of "police,
intimkilition and police, assaults."
would face serious danger because of the
small quantities involved.
. "If everything turned loose, the 0n1y , . - .
person who would be killed would be (the
one) in the bUilding.with it,?' Holcomb,:y,
said.
Inmates take over
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South Bend , Ind. jail
SOUTH BEND, Ind. (UPI) -- About
inmates seized control of the St. Joseph ,
County Jail yesterday, held a jail guard :4`.:.
and and matron hostage for three hours and
raped two women prisoners. • Police
stormed the jail to end the uprising. .
The two women prisoners were hospi-t
talized. No other injuries were reported.
The inmates seized the second floor :
cell block of the jail at about 7 'a.m. !
yesterday, police said. A matron on the
floor, Marty Lynch, and a guard, Robert ;
Cressy, were taken hostage. •
The inmates demanded better food and :.-
conditions, improved visitation rights ;
and longer phone calls.
' St. Joseph County police and South 42;
Bend police SWAT teams stormed the ;
jail with police dogs at about 10:15 a.m., : r
securing:the building.
County Prosecutor Michael Barnes
said criminal charges may be filed
against the prisoners involved in the*:: / :1 . :
uprising. .; .
• A horse, my kingdom for a horse
By TODD LIGHTY
Daily Collegian Staff Writer
Arms raised high in the air, the warrior moves in for the
final kill.
Crash! He knocks his opponent to the ground with one
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*massive blow of his sword. The warrior's prey lies motionless
on the' ground.
But in just a few seconds the warrior's opponent is back on
his feet and ready to start another round of intense combat.
' This is' only one of the many strange sights beheld on the
HUB Lawn on warm. Sunday afternoons: •
The Society for Creative Anachronism, which sponsors the
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Siinday battles, is an educational organization that combines
its members' talents and fantasies to recreate the Middle Ages
and the European, Asian and African renaissances.
Members of the organization try to create pre-1650 persona '
in i an attempt to present themselves as ficticious medieval
characters. They act, feel and dress as medieval people.
• One of the group's most popular events is warrior combat.
The warriors, dressed in medieval garb and wearing protective
4 7 armor, are equipped with makeshift swords and wooden axes
or maces.
The warriors' attire is designed to imitate the country he or
she represents. The costumes can weigh up to 40 pounds and
can cost anywhere from $2O-$2,000.
Before each battle, the marshall, who officiates the fight,
• reads the rules to the combatants.
o 'Honor your opponent. Honor the crowd," the marshall
says. "To the love of the shire and to the glory of the crown,
commence fighting."
Immediately, the two warriors approach each other, danc
ing and yelling, as they jockey for position to make a kill; a
blow that is hard, crisp and to one of the vital areas of a
warrior. •
0 The warriors swing, poke, jab and slice frantically at one
another. When one of the warriors is dealt a severe blow, which
is determined by the marshal], he or she must lie on the ground Photo mukluk°
in defeat and the suspense-filled battle is over. , Terry Crain (10th-markethig), right, stalks his opponent
Ruth E. Mallette (graduate-geologY) , , who is known by the Charlie Dixon in a simulated broadsword battle on the HUB
society as Sheila Kincaid, said occasionally one of the members lawn.
gets hurt when fighting. But she said it's never worse than a
broken finger or cracked rib. the dissimilarities between the people of the Middle Ages. He
40 • "As the guyi say, it's less dangerous than football," Mal- said this is an attempt to show 'the members of different
lette said. "However, sometimes the warriors get mad at each countries that they are not at all alike.
other. Part of the thing we stress is chivalry and not getting "I've met some strange people in the society," Moyer said.
mad at your 'Opponent." "To want to join the society, you have to be slightly schizoid and
Beth A. Mallette (sth-theater and costume design) alais slightly romantic. The whole point of the society is to give you a
Anna Elzevir, said the battles are confrontations to teach the chance to live out your fantasies."
members skills. Moyer 'said his favorite activity for the society involves
"At times it's' a comic routine," Beth Mallette said. "It's "drinking and wenching."
just a lot of fun." "Some people may think we are weird," Moyer said. "But
The society is divided into six kingdoms throughout the could you imagine if just only one of us would do this? They'd
United States and Canada, with membership totaling 3,000 or lock you up. But when a lot of people are doing the same thing,
4,000 people, she said. And the membership continues to grow it becomes an event."
rapidly. Snow Shoe resident Charles S. Dixon, administrator of the
Ross Moyer, a radio sales manager from Williamsport, said local chapter of the society, said the area organization is
*the fighting in battle exists oil' an honor system. becoming a major power in the East Kingdom, with boundaries
:He stressed / that the society researches and practices music, from Maine to Northern Maryland.
poetry, calligraphy, cooking, dancing and brewing. Dixon, who is referred to as Koimaker Ul Fshofuth in the
'Moyer, who calls himself Muhammad Osman al'Kloreshi, society, said he became interested in the society partly because
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Kepford: Met Ed lied about TMI
Utility made 'amazing' assumptions during accident
Continued from Page 1. more open with the public. Yet the agen- - you see that all leading?
It was very difficult for anyone to, get cy is moving in exactly the opposite KEPFORD: If they're not in check, I
any information because of the continu- directkop, think they lead to a societal collapse or a
ing string of lies put out by Metropolitian COLLEGIAN: Do you see• any of the nuclear war. lam absolutely flabber-
Edison Company in order to protect its energy companies developing solar en- gasted that these suppossedly responsi
overinflated public relations image. ergy. to an economically feasible alterna- ble professors at this University have
This policy (of lying) is really support- tive for a large number of people? such a nonexistent notion of what the
ed by the NRC. We are are still involved KEPFORD: I support solar energy to consequences of exponential growth are.
In the TMI 1 restart hearings. One of the
issues we tried to raise was that there is •
no mechanism in the plans to insure that
the public gets honest, factual and timely 'The NRC, and this is one thing that really bothers
information. The NRC would not allow us
to litigate that issue. They did not want ' me about the NRC, since the TMI accident they
that issue examined publicly. have moved a long way towards simply cutting the
In • the evacuation plans for the five
counties adjoining TMI that might be public off from information about the nuclear
threatened by an accident, there were
some amazing assumptions. For Harris- program.'
burg there was the asssumption that
there would be a 48 hour warning period
prior to the need for evacuation so people
could get ready.
We asked if for someone to take ,the
stand and be able to defend that kind of the extent that it's not monopolized, to Granted, these people have been sub
assumption. The licensing board refused the extent that it is small, decentralized jected to training in physics and math for
to allow us to question those assump- use of solar power, non-large scale. The many years. I'm really appalled that
Lions. economics of public utilities is such that their education has been so woefully
If there was, if there had ever been, or with very few exceptions, 'it's in the inadequate that they can't recongize that
if there ever will be a fully open hearing economic interest of the utilities to sup- exponential growth greater than zero,
with full access to information and fair ply the most expensive, capital intensive over long periods of time, is simply
• judges, no nuclear power plant would generating facilities they can. unsustainable. It cannot go on. There is
ever be licensed. The ideal uses of solar energy are no way to do it when you have finite
COLLEGIAN: Why do you say that? small scale. I would hope that these resources when we live in a finite
KEPFORD: The NRC, and this is one never become monopolized. I would hope world when we do.
thing that really bothers me about the that they really are allowed to become COLLEGIAN:' Reagan has not really
NRC, since the TMI accident they have truly democratic. talked about, energy and he hasn't talked
moved a long way towards simply cut- COLLEGIAN: What impact does the about conservation. Do you think conser
ting the public off from information Reagan administration have on energy vation and energy problems are still on
about the nuclear program. issues? the minds of Americans?
We have gotten proposed changes in KEPFORD: If one had to pick a set of KEPFORD: In a lot of ways yes. In a
the rules of practice which would seal the strategies that would have the most lot of ways no. As fuel bills skyrocket,
NRC off from not only providing infor- devastating effect on the country, you which they will, as electricity prices
mation but also providing witnesses who would come pretty close to what the skyrocket, which they will when the high
can give relevant testimony. Reagan administration is proposing. cost nuclear plants come on line, people
There is one precess called discovery, They have cut funds for solar energy and will be forced to conserve more, but
whereby you identify information you conservation is a dirty word because there is no assurance that their rates
would like to inspect it is relevant to the there is no profit in conservation except won't be raised even more to pay for
proceeding. By these new rules the NRC for people: these outrageously expensive plants that
would not permit discovery upon the The situation has been aptly described were never needed in the first place.
NRC staff. You could inspect no doucu- some years ago by David Brower from But the other side, there is still a push
ments nor can you ask the NRC staff to Friends of the Earth as a policy of in a lot of states to get rid of the 55 miles
answer any questions under oath. They 'Strength through exhaustion.' I don't per-hour speed limit. It's really the anti
can refuse. know how better to describe it. thesis of conservation to roar across
The various bodies that studied the COLLEGIAN: In your speeches during Texas at 85 miles-per-hour. If we had an
accident a TMI all found that there were Eco-Action's Nuclear Awareness Week, infinite supply of petroleum and gaso
serious attitude problems within the you talked about exponential growth and line, there may be some justification for
NRC staff, that the agency should be exponential uses of fossil fuel. Where do that, but of course there isn't
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