1.   Miners at the coal pits in nearby Karaganda threatened to cut off supplies because they had not been paid.

2.   The miners loaded onto their buses and returned to the Ruhr coal pits but warned they would be back if Kohl fudged on his pledge.

3.   There also were related walkouts by workers at three M.I.M. coal pits.

4.   There was dancing in the coal pit and a roast suckling pig with an apple in its mouth.

5.   There were related walkouts by workers at three M.I.M. coal pits in Queensland, amid a threat that the coal dispute might go nationwide.

6.   We asked the super to break a hole in it and we discovered a huge, cavernous coal pit.

7.   A strike over back wages by some of the same miners who helped spark the ouster of President Slobodan Milosevic spread to a second coal pit on Thursday.

8.   A strike over back wages by some of the same miners who helped spark the ouster of Slobodan Milosevic spread to a second coal pit on Thursday.

9.   But land mines hidden in open coal pits will delay excavation at the vast mining complex where bodies of war crimes victims allegedly were dumped.

10.   Eleven miners were missing Monday after an explosion or a cave-in in a Queensland coal pit, mine officials said.