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The World - News from Aug. 3, 1989

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Hundreds of ethnic Albanian miners staged a strike for the second day in the Yugoslav province of Kosovo, but authorities succeeded in confining the unrest to one large enterprise. About 200 miners joined supervisors and technical staff in refusing to work at the Trepca lead and zinc mines, scene of widespread Albanian nationalist protests last November and February. The miners, angry at having to wait more than a month for their June wages, stayed out despite promises that they would be paid this week.

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