Word: alsdorf
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Executives of Chemie Grünenthal GMBH had been on trial for 20 months in a suit brought by the West German government in behalf of the parents and children. In a courtroom improvised from a miners' hall in Alsdorf, near Aachen, company lawyers had been skillfully using delaying moves in an apparent effort to wear down the plaintiffs. Their efforts seemed to be paying off; by last week, few of the aggrieved parents were bothering to attend the monotonous hearings. But time was also working against Grünenthal. Its key executives had been confined to the courtroom...