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This stereotype of glamour and prestige never seems so unreal as when a correspondent is confronted by overwhelming, stomach-wrenching misery and death. New Delhi Bureau Chief Dean Brelis faced such a scene last week when he arrived in Bhopal, India, just 30 hours after a toxic gas leak had created the world's worst industrial disaster. "I have seen men killed in battle," Brelis reported after walking through streets littered with the corpses of people and animals. "But seeing ordinary people dying before your eyes, especially mute children falling dead in a transfixed silence, is appalling. I felt...
...tragic gas leak offers a parable of industrial life
Within hours of the leak, hundreds of victims had lined up at Hamidia Hospital and makeshift clinics, where doctors and nurses worked frantically to ease their misery. As the hospitals filled, patients gathered in the corridors or on the grounds outside; side by side, babies and children thrashed around, unable to breathe. Thousands of animals were also killed by the gas. As the days passed, a sickly stench of decay arose from the bloated carcasses of water buffalo, cattle and dogs that clogged the city's streets. Finally, the army removed them with cranes. But as long as animal...
...them were under repair. According to Madanlal Ranji, president of the plant's labor union, the scrubber was also in the process of being fixed. To make matters worse, a critical panel in the control room had been removed, perhaps as part of the maintenance program, thus preventing the leak from showing up on monitors...
ANOTHER STORY in the headlines this week offers a disquieting example of offers a disquieting example of how insidious. American insensitivity abroad can be. The deadly gas leak from the American-owned Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India immediately raised questions as to whether the firm had taker, adequate precautions to safeguard Indian lives...