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Again and again, Prime Minister Gandhi and his ministers reiterated last week their determination to impose, and enforce, new and stricter industrial safety regulations. "We are concerned not only about this plant but about similar places as well," said Gandhi at Bhopal. "I believe there must be an overall government policy change...
...resolutions, perhaps the most poignant comments came from agonized survivors like A. Raoof, a Bhopal farmer. "We never understood why they would build a factory containing poison gas close to where people live," said Raoof, still choking 30 hours after the gas seeped through his home. "They could have gone out in the jungle where no one lives. Now we are mourning our dead." As he spoke, silent processions of survivors carried the dead, wrapped in white cotton shrouds and covered with flowers, through the streets of the poisoned city to the nearby Chhola Vishram cremation site. There, four, five...
TIME New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis was among the first Western correspondents to arrive in Bhopal last week. His report...
Last week's disaster in Bhopal focused world attention on two highly volatile and toxic gases, methyl isocyanate and phosgene. They, along with many other chemicals, are used in the production of pesticides. Methyl isocyanate (MIC) helps produce Union Carbide's Temik, a product marketed under Robert Gordon Haines, the company's manager for new pesticides. It is one of a group of chemicals called isocyanates that are used to make polyurethane, which, in turn, is used to make paint and varnish. The MIC compound also has been made in the U.S. at Union Carbide...
...Middleport, N.Y., a small community northeast of Buffalo, elementary schoolchildren huddle over their notebooks, just 400 yards from a pesticide factory operated by the FMC Corp. A month ago a faulty pump at the neighboring plant spewed out methyl isocyanate gas, the same substance that was stored at Bhopal, India, where more than 2,500 people died last week. Firemen evacuated the 600 youngsters from the school, and 30 of them were treated for eye irritations...