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Wesleyan University president Conn G. Campbell drafted the letter. Other signatories include the presidents of Columbia, Cornell, Notre Dame, Rutgers and Yale Universities and of Amherst, Bryn Mawr, Colby, Dartmouth, Haverford, Oberlin, Smith, Swarthmore and Williams colleges...
Hyman Rickover, father of the nuclear navy, friend of congressional committee chairmen, was accustomed to getting his way with defense contractors. Once, according to congressional investigators, while visiting General Dynamics' Electric Boat shipyard in Groton, Conn., the crusty admiral admired a horn-handled fruit knife and idly declared that he would like to have a dozen of them. Shipyard executives hopped to. The handle was shipped off to a General Dynamics' lab, where analysis revealed that it had been made from the horn of a rare Southeast Asian buffalo. More buffalo horn was sent for, and a dozen...
While Bhopal was full of frantic activity, an air of funereal quiet hung over Union Carbide's sprawling headquarters in Danbury, Conn. Flags were flying at half-mast; Christmas parties had been canceled. "Nobody is feeling very festive around here," said a company official. Indeed, the survivors of the tragedy and those being accused of responsibility for it were distinctly hard pressed last week. Both groups remained haunted by the prospect of delayed repercussions: the 200,000 residents of Bhopal who had inhaled the gas faced lingering fears and possible long-term medical effects, while Union Carbide...
...backlash was Union Carbide. Within hours of the accident, police in Bhopal closed the plant and arrested its manager, J. Mukund, as well as four of his colleagues, on charges of "culpable homicide through negligence." When a team of five technical experts from Union Carbide's headquarters in Danbury, Conn., arrived to inspect the factory, they were turned away by local authorities. "We don't want anyone tampering with the evidence," said an official. The Indian Central Bureau of Investigation, meanwhile, seized records and logbooks at the plant, and Chief Minister Singh ordered a judicial inquiry into the accident. "This...
...Union Carbide offices around the world, the mood was somber. Said an executive at the corporation's Danbury, Conn., headquarters: "People were scared to death by the company's falling stock price, but most of all they felt terrible about the tragedy." On Thursday at noon the company's 100,000 employees worldwide observed a moment of silence for the Bhopal victims. Without any prompting from superiors, managers launched safety reviews of their operations...