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...same sort of compensation to Bhopal's victims that it would if they were Americans. Those U.S. rates, under which each claimant could typically win $100,000, are considerably higher than their Indian equivalents. At week's end, three American attorneys, including Melvin Belli, filed a lawsuit in Charleston, W. Va., on behalf of Bhopal victims, asking damages of $15 billion. Said a company spokesman in Danbury: "Something like this happens, and people everywhere begin seeing dollar signs in front of their eyes...
That hearty fatalism is typical of Institute, W. Va., an unincorporated town eight miles west of Charleston. Most of its 500 permanent residents are black; an additional 300 people are handicapped and live at a local rehabilitation center; and 4,000 students attend nearby West Virginia State College. The town has three restaurants, two gas stations, one barbershop and a sprawling Union Carbide plant. It is the only site in the U.S. that produces methyl isocyanate, the deadly chemical that wafted through Bhopal, India...
...sailors will now vacation until late February, when they will travel to Charleston, S.C. to defend a title they won there a year...
...charge seems fair enough. Raese is a conservative with no political experience. During the Republican Convention in Dallas, Raese got into a scuffle with a Charleston Gazette reporter over the candidate's erstwhile advocacy of right-to-work laws. At a United Mine Workers rally on Labor Day, Raese practically heckled his opponent as Rockefeller addressed the crowd. "Come on, big boy," he shouted to the gentlemanly, 6-ft. 7-in. Governor, "I'm ready to debate you!" Rowdy Raese expects indulgence from voters. Says he: "I don't think West Virginia is going to elect Governor...
Vice President Bush, campaigning in South Carolina and Georgia, was dogged by reporters' questions about whether he fully agreed with Reagan that there should be no federal funding for abortions and that a constitutional amendment banning them should be enacted. In Charleston, S.C., Bush said that he not only opposes all public funding for abortion now but that "I always have." In Atlanta, he told reporters, "My position is like Ronald Reagan's. Put that down." Reporters, however, quickly turned up 1980 newspaper clippings and TV footage showing that Bush had supported federal funding for abortions in case...