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...second campaign was 'He kept us out of war.' But (later) we realized that maybe we got in that war because that policy made the enemy think they could do anything and Wilson wouldn't fight . . . I think Ike brought about the armistice in Korea with a quiet little leak that we just might consider a change in weaponry, meaning we might loose that thing we had loosed once before (an atom bomb). Almost overnight we went to an armistice table...
...chemical industry had a Three Mile Island of its own when a gas leak at a Union Carbide plant killed some 2,500 people in Bhopal, India. The company faces a flurry of lawsuits that threaten its financial future. In the wake of the disaster, chemical manufacturers will have to take a hard look at safety procedures. Moreover, companies in all kinds of industries will need to examine whether their ways of doing business in foreign countries measure up to their standards at home. Said a shaken Warren Anderson, chairman of Union Carbide: "I think Bhopal has changed the world...
...countdown to the factory's reopening continued, state officials took drastic precautions to prevent a recurrence of the fatal leak. Throughout the detoxification process, which was to be undertaken only during daylight hours, a helicopter was to circle 200 ft. above the plant. At even the slightest sign of a gas escape, the pilot, protected by a special oxygen mask, would release up to 317 gal. of water to degrade the lethal chemical. If more water were needed, two more helicopters would come to the rescue. All around the facility, blinking lights were set up to help guide...
...those ten problems may have contributed to the recent tragedy. Company officials insisted that nine of the deficiencies had been corrected by last June. A safety valve on a methyl isocyanate storage tank was still malfunctioning, they conceded, but it was nowhere near the tank that caused the disastrous leak. The firm did acknowledge that no U.S. supervisor had visited the Bhopal plant since the 1982 inspection, and no major audit of the facility had been undertaken in more than two years...
...lawyers, who under standard contingency-fee arrangements in the U.S. can earn 30% of the awards they win in a personal-injury case, are hoping to turn the Bhopal gas leak into the most profitable disaster ever. Mega-claims have already been brought against Union Carbide in a number of U.S. jurisdictions where the company does business. Belli is seeking $15 billion in a class action filed in Charleston, W. Va. The Santa Monica, Calif., law firm Gould & Sayre has put in a $20 billion class-action claim in New York City. Coale & Associates of Washington expects to represent thousands...