The Ludlow massacre, revealing the horrors of rule by hired assassins of industry and telling as well of the thirty years war waged by Colorado coal miners ... to secure an enforcement of the laws

The proportion of wells operated using artificial lift was to be increased to 80%. At the beginning of the Eleventh Five-Year Plan (1981БЂ“1985), the oil industry entered a new stage of development characterized principally by a sharp decline in production growth rates; the first signs had begun to appear of an impending day of reckoning for the subjective and poorly considered decisions of industry policy. As a consequence, starting in 1982 the USSRБЂ™s annual plans for production of oil and natural gas liquids were no longer met, not once. In 1983, production of oil and gas condensate in the USSR fell to 679 million tons, and the following year it slipped again, to 675 million tons. After the death of Leonid Brezhnev in November 1982, the top Soviet leadership underwent a series of abrupt changes: leadership of the government was assumed by Yury Andropov (1914БЂ“1984), and after his death in February of 1984, by Konstantin Chernenko (1911БЂ“1985), whose rule lasted little over a year. Finally, the April 1985 Plenum of the CPSU Central Committee elected Mikhail Gorbachц«v to the highest post in the Party ...»