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...exchanged in the corridors, and executives casually walked around the firm's suburban grounds. Although profits last year were just $323 million on sales of $9.5 billion, below those of the chemical-industry giants, company executives gave the impression that things would soon get better. But since the gas leak on Dec. 3 in Bhopal, India, that left at least 1,400 people dead and perhaps 170,000 more injured, the mood in Danbury has changed dramatically. No one, from Chairman Warren Anderson on down, expects Union Carbide to collapse as a result of the Bhopal disaster, but all acknowledge...
Plant safety procedures were inadequate to deal with a large-scale leak of the deadly methyl isocyanate, or MIC, despite the fact that the dangers such a leak would pose were known. Nor had any precautions been taken to protect people living near the plant site. Although a safety survey conducted by experts from Union Carbide headquarters in 1982 identified major hazards that could lead to serious incidents, no procedures were developed for alerting or evacuating the population that would be affected by an accident...
...affairs. Directors at United Technologies in November conducted a probe that cleared Chairman Harry Gray of charges that he had bugged or wiretapped a former president of the company. The 15 directors of Union Carbide in December found themselves coping with the biggest industrial accident in history, the gas leak in Bhopal, India, that killed at least 2,500 people. The directors, meeting in an emergency four-hour session at Manhattan's Helmsley Palace Hotel, appointed four members to monitor the situation. Said Chairman Warren Anderson: "They were calm, concerned and interested in not ducking responsibility...
Could it happen here? That was the question asked by many Americans after last month's disaster at a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India, in which a leak of poisonous methyl isocyanate gas killed more than 2,000 people. Two reports released last week about a similar Union Carbide plant in Institute, W. Va., raised new worries. In one, the Environmental Protection Agency found that methyl isocyanate had leaked from the plant 28 times from 1980 to 1984, apparently in small quantities. The EPA is investigating...
What next? After the shocks of the past six months, including the assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi and a leak in a chemical plant in Bhopal that killed more than 2,500 people, Indians were stunned last week by yet another national crisis. This time the bombshell was the exposure of an espionage network that had penetrated to the highest reaches of the government. Before clamping a tight lid on details of the investigation, India's youthful new leader, Rajiv Gandhi, whose Congress (I) Party won a sweeping majority in national elections only a month ago, gravely informed Parliament...