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he horrible suffocating death of the trapped miners in the burning coal mine in Utah will be a test of the impenetrability of the Teflon coating the media has wrapped around President Reagan.
The industrial safety boards are among the many governmental agencies his Administration has gutted by both withholding funds and appointing personnel that don’t believe in the purposes they were originally designed to serve.
LLOYD W. LEHMANN Oakland
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