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NEW YORK, June 27 (Reuters) - Magnum Coal Co. on Wednesday pulled its $350 million bond deal, citing market conditions, syndicate sources told Reuters Loan Pricing Corp.

Lehman Brothers was the lead manager for the seven-year, second-lien secured notes.

Magnum Coal is rated "B3" by Moody's Investors Service and "B-minus" by Standard & Poor's, the sixth highest junk rating.

Sue Ellen Wooldridge, the 19th-ranking Interior Department official, arrived at her desk in Room 6140 a few months after Inauguration Day 2001. A phone message awaited her.

"This is Dick Cheney," said the man on her voice mail, Wooldridge recalled in an interview. "I understand you are the person handling this Klamath situation. Please call me at -- hmm, I guess I don't know my own number. I'm over at the White House."

Wooldridge wrote off the message as a prank. It was not. Cheney had reached far down the chain of command, on so unexpected a point of vice presidential concern, because he had spotted a political threat arriving on Wooldridge's desk.

In Oregon, a battleground state that the Bush-Cheney ticket had lost by less than half of 1 percent, drought-stricken farmers and ranchers were about to be cut off from the irrigation water that kept their cropland and pastures green. Federal biologists said the Endangered Species Act left the government no choice: The survival of two imperiled species of fish was at stake.

During a conference call with reporters Tuesday, Sen. Jim Bunning said he had been "threatened" by a fellow senator.

He said he was told by Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., that if he persisted with his plans on an energy measure, nothing he did in the future would clear the Senate Finance Committee, where Baucus is chairman.

Bunning, R-Ky., later added that this was communicated between the senators' staffs. And Bunning said he communicated to Baucus: "Stuff it."

Normally, the comments would have been available for anyone to hear at Bunning's Web site, where he posts recordings of his weekly press calls.

But the recording of Tuesday's call was edited, and the senator's comments about the threats were taken out.

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