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By JOHN GOOLRICK
Rappahannock News Special Writer
People who play in the highstakes arena of gubernatorial politics must invariably try to tread lightly through minefields.
Paul Trible found that out the hard way in the recently completed Republican gubernatorial primary when his 1987 decision not to seek , re-election to the U.S. Senate came back to haunt him with a vengeance.
It wasn’t so much Sen. Trible’s quitting the Senate that bothered many fellow Republicans, but the way he did it. In a statewide broadcast he said he wanted to spend more time with his family, yet by the time his Senate term ended he was gearing up to run for governor.
Some of the minefields faced by this year's gubernatorial candidates. Democrat L. Douglas Wilder and Republican J. Marshall Coleman are , beginning to surface.
There is trouble in the coal mining region of southwest Virginia as a ' long and bitter strike by miners against the Pittson Coal Group, the state’s largest coal producer, contin• ues.
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