Word: bhopal
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...There is a notion that they can handle the risks without regulation. That's what they said before Three Mile Island, before Bhopal, and before Institute, West Virginia," Bachrach said...
...known for his role in a variety of sensational legal cases. He represented Jack Ruby in the Lee Harvey Oswald murder trial. More recently, he has represented clients seeking huge damages in the downing of a Korean Air Lines jet, the Las Vegas MGM Grand Hotel fire, and the Bhopal chemical disaster...
Commenting on the Bhopal case, Belli said he expected to win a $1 billion award from Union Carbide Co. on behalf of 22,000 clients. Thousands of people were killed or injured in the Indian village when deadly gas leaked from a Union Carbide plant earlier this year...
When India has broken through the legacy of its storybook history, it has emerged in Western consciousness as the land of assassination and religious riots, of chemical disaster in Bhopal and the nuclear-arms race with Pakistan. Or, more trivially, as the land of tandoori chicken and the Nehru jacket. India's reputation has also suffered, at least among Americans, from the country's professed detachment in conflicts between the U.S. and the Soviets, and the frequent appearance of a political entente between New Delhi and Moscow. Says Festival Coordinator Niranjan Desai of India's embassy in Washington...
...rise in product-liability lawsuits, notably in the case of the Dalkon Shield intrauterine birth control device, has resulted in ballooning insurance rates for manufacturers. And Union Carbide's Bhopal disaster, which prompted more than $100 billion in lawsuits, has helped make toxic-pollution insurance virtually impossible for most chemical companies to obtain...