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When artists are not rallying the well-heeled troops, they are struggling to transform their feelings about AIDS and its sufferers into art. Theater has already produced a shelf of contentious dramatic literature: Hoffman's As Is, Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, Harvey Fierstein's Safe Sex, Robert Chesley's Jerker, or the Helping Hand, Alan Bowne's Beirut. The D.C. Cabaret Troupe is performing its new musical, A Dance Against Darkness: Living with AIDS, in Washington. NBC broadcast the first AIDS TV movie, An Early Frost, in 1985, and this week CBS airs An Enemy Among...
...charges were greeted with skepticism by attorneys representing the Bhopal victims, whose claims of more than $350 million for damages are to be filed in an Indian court later this month. Said Stanley Chesley, one of three court-appointed lawyers representing the plaintiffs in the U.S.: "The company is trying to soften hostility in India by pointing the finger at someone else...
...Bhopal victims' American attorneys, who include F. Lee Bailey of Boston and Stanley Chesley of Cincinnati, apparently decided that the settlement offer was preferable to the possibility that the case might eventually be transferred out of U.S. courts to India. There, a judgment would be limited by the size of Union Carbide's Indian subsidiary, which has only $80 million in assets, compared with the parent company's $10.6 billion...
...from banks and other lenders, to which it owes $4.2 billion, and the company's creditors are widely thought to have played a key role in forcing McCardell out. Says William A. Goldstein, executive vice president and analyst for the Chicago investment brokerage firm of Burton J. Vincent, Chesley & Co.: "Despite their denials, the banks were very instrumental in this ouster. The Harvester board just would not have made such a move without first consulting the banks...
American drilling activity has already leveled off in the Williston Basin of Montana and the Dakotas and the Austin Chalk of central south Texas. Chesley Pruett, a drilling contractor operating out of El Dorado, Ark., said recently, "Last year at this time I had my rigs booked up six months in advance. Now the work is coming in well by well...