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...demonstration in Bhopal, some 200 women carried placards reading THE GOVERNMENT HAS BETRAYED US. Others called for the hanging of those responsible for the Bhopal leak. The main opposition party in the Indian legislature branded the settlement "a total sellout by the government...
...amount than previously demanded because Union Carbide agreed to write the whole check right away. Last November the two sides had come close to agreeing on a settlement of $500 million, but that amount would have been paid out over ten years. Union Carbide, which has insisted that the leak was an act of sabotage by a disgruntled worker, will have no trouble raising the cash. The company had already set aside $200 million for the purpose, and its insurance will cover another $250 million. But the case may not be fully closed, liability experts say, because dissatisfied Bhopal survivors...
...When the Administration jumped, Bush jumped too." Shortly after Reagan-Bush won in 1980, the Vice President told key staffers that he would keep his head down and his mouth shut. "I'm not going to operate like Mondale," an aide recalls Bush saying. "I'm not going to leak my differences with policies that are unpopular. No one's going to catch me trying to cover my ass that way." And no one ever did. By the end, even some of Bush's oldest friends fretted. "He's submerged his own views," said former Maryland Senator Charles Mathias...
Over a week ago a leak was discovered under Ingalls Rink--the New Haven, Conn. home of Yale hockey--which threatened to put the facility out of commission for the Elis' game against Brown last Saturday, and possibly move Yale's matchup with Harvard Tuesday night (8. p.m., WHRB...
Such evils, for example, as the assumption that nations are separate unto themselves. Today all countries are interconnected despite their territorial claims, he argues, and "saying that the Japanese have a pollution problem is ! like saying there's a bad leak in your end of the boat." Of course, hundreds of futurists share that insight. Some of them, when pressed hard enough, may even present a solution or two. That is the Asimov difference: without prompting, he offers remedies by the ream. The man who predicted assembly-line robotics in 1939, coined the term psychohistory -- "the prediction of future trends...