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...came down like rain, but what was falling on a West Virginia shopping mall was a chemical compound that had leaked from a Union Carbide plant in South Charleston. About 5,700 lbs. of a mixture containing mesityl oxide escaped when an excessive amount of steam built up in a distillation tank. The stinging substance sent four people to the hospital. Others were treated for nausea and tissue irritation...
Reuben Greenberg, 40, Charleston. Upon arriving in 1982 in tradition-bound Charleston, S.C., Greenberg had three things going against him. He was black. He was an outsider, from the Florida department of law enforcement. And he was a practicing Jew, the great-grandson of a white Jewish Texas farmer and his black wife. In less than a month he had created several new obstacles to his popularity in the department: a firm order forbidding the unnecessary use of force, followed by a volley of other new regulations that now fill a 3-in.- thick handbook...
...Chief Greenberg had at least three things working for him: energy, flamboyance and competence. During the past two years the number of arrests in Charleston has doubled, and the crime rate has tumbled. In the same period, not a shot was fired by police. His increased foot and mounted patrols pleased downtown businessmen, and he delighted the rank and file by taking to the streets himself when things got slow at headquarters. He has made dozens of % collars in his car, on foot and on horseback, and gained some national publicity when he nabbed a bicycle thief while roller-skating...
...other winners are NASA's appropriately high-tech logo and graphic system; a coordinated National Park Service pamphlet design; the Historic Preservation Tax Incentives Program; the GSA program for placing artworks in public buildings; the Charles River flood control, navigation improvement and pollution abatement; a public housing project in Charleston, S.C.; and an urban redevelopment program in St. Paul...
...personal-injury case, are hoping to turn the Bhopal gas leak into the most profitable disaster ever. Mega-claims have already been brought against Union Carbide in a number of U.S. jurisdictions where the company does business. Belli is seeking $15 billion in a class action filed in Charleston, W. Va. The Santa Monica, Calif., law firm Gould & Sayre has put in a $20 billion class-action claim in New York City. Coale & Associates of Washington expects to represent thousands of Bhopal victims in a suit that will probably be filed in Connecticut...