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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Journalists never forget their landscapes of the dead. Photographer David Burnett, on assignment for TIME, spent five days last month at two of the camps set up for Ethiopia's starving population. Says he: "It is not the millions who really batter at your emotions. It is each individual person, like the little naked girl I photographed sitting on a rock: she was not strong enough to stand, not strong enough even to eat. I still see her face." Burnett was also struck by individual images of compassion. "There were so many loving moments, a mother with her baby...
Mexico City Correspondent Janice Simpson was similarly moved when she covered the gas-tank explosion three weeks ago that left more than 2,500 dead. "People who had suffered great losses were nonetheless eager to help me, to tell their stories," she says. "But I felt a great frustration at having so little to offer them in return." The day after the explosion, Simpson went to a center where names of the missing could be checked against computer lists. Some distraught people took her for an official and asked her to aid them. "I told the first...
...Specimen Days Walt Whitman created a terrible picture of the proximity of human progress and human frailty by describing the U.S. Patent Office when it was used as a hospital during the Civil War. There the dead and dying soldiers lay on cots surrounded by the latest inventions of the day, high shelves packed with gleaming instruments devised to ensure the world's safety and advancement. India provided some specimen days last week. On Monday the death toll was 410. On Friday, more than 2,500. By the weekend, numbers had no meaning any more, since no one could...
...deal more than they take away. But the problem is not purely mystical either. If social advancement lies in something as lethal as methyl isocyanate, it only argues for handling with the greatest care. After this tragedy is out of the news, and the lawsuits are filed, and the dead cremated, things ought to be made considerably safer than they were before Bhopal. Human progress, human frailty. Ashes float in the air near the pesticide plant. -By Roger Rosenblatt
...vapor passed first over the shantytowns of Jaiprakash and Chhola, just outside the walls of the plant, leaving hundreds dead as they slept. The gas quickly enveloped the city's railway station, where beggars were huddled against the chill. In minutes, a score had died and 200 others were gravely ill. Through temples and shops, over streets and lakes, across a 25-sq.-mi. quadrant of the city, the cloud continued to spread, noiselessly and lethally. The night air was fairly cool (about 60° F), the wind was almost calm, and a heavy mist clung to the earth; those conditions...