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There was something eerie about getting there 30 hours after the leak. At the airport there was an air of uncertainty and even fear. Only three taxis were available, and miraculously two photographers and I got one of them. When we told the driver where we wanted to go he uttered one word, "Danger," to justify doubling the fare we had agreed upon. We accepted instantly...
...French government prohibits the manufacture of MIC. La Littorale officials proudly point to the facility's extensive security features. The air in the plant is automatically monitored, and should any gas escape from a drum an alarm would call in a crack emergency team. If large enough, the leak would also trigger a water system to deluge and wash down the MIC. Declares Heinz Trautmann, president of La Littorale: "The situation in France is very different from that in India...
...Dick Henderson. "It's just our way of communication." But real emergencies in the valley have occurred. Chemical plant explosions have killed 14 people since 1941. At various other times over the past 17 years, thousands of residents have had to evacuate their homes because of lethal gas leaks. In 1978, one plant worker in Institute was hospitalized and 88 others were examined by doctors after a leak of phosgene...
Still, Institute has no police department, only a volunteer fire department. There are wind socks at the plant to indicate the direction taken by an inadvertent leak, but none in residential areas. And the present plant warning system has left many people utterly confused. Says White: "If there are two blasts from the whistles that means a fire or emergency in the plant. If there are three blasts that means a gas release in the plant. If there are blasts every three seconds that means there's a danger for the people outside the plant...
Only a year and a half ago, the usually brimming California treasury had sprung a leak. Reeling from the revenue losses caused by Proposition 13 and brutalized by the recession, California was facing a deficit of $500 million. The state took drastic measures. It cut or froze social programs across the board and shrank its work force by 4,000. Energy spending was cut back sharply. Tax loopholes were plugged. Today, with its revenues buoyed by the recovery, California expects a budget surplus of anywhere from $889 million to $1.26 billion for the fiscal year ending next June...