Word: bhopal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This stereotype of glamour and prestige never seems so unreal as when a correspondent is confronted by overwhelming, stomach-wrenching misery and death. New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis faced such a scene last week when he arrived in Bhopal, India, just 30 hours after a toxic gas leak had created the world's worst industrial disaster. "I have seen men killed in battle," Brelis reported after walking through streets littered with the corpses of people and animals. "But seeing ordinary people dying before your eyes, especially mute children falling dead in a transfixed silence, is appalling. I felt...
...ensure the world's safety and advancement. India provided some specimen days last week. On Monday the death toll was 410. On Friday, more than 2,500. By the weekend, numbers had no meaning any more, since no one could tell how many of the citizens of Bhopal who managed to survive the leaking toxic gas would eventually be counted among the dead. Something went very wrong at the Union Carbide pesticide plant. Human progress came up against human frailty. The air was poisoned, and the world gasped...
...fact, the world's tragedy that occurred in Bhopal, not only because one saw fellow mortals stricken but because the industrialized society has created a shared fragility. The sources of enhancement are also the sources of fear and peril-all the chemical plants, nuclear power plants and other strangely shaped structures concocting potential salvation and destruction in remote and quiet places. The citizens of Bhopal lived near the Union Carbide plant because they sought to live there. The plant provided jobs, the pesticide more food. Bhopal was a modern parable of the risks and rewards originally engendered...
ANOTHER STORY in the headlines this week offers a disquieting example of offers a disquieting example of how insidious. American insensitivity abroad can be. The deadly gas leak from the American-owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India immediately raised questions as to whether the firm had taker, adequate precautions to safeguard Indian lives...
...this sounds like the recent devastation which killed 2000 and injured 200,000 more in Bhopal, India last week, think again...