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...American lawyers. Looking for business. They courted Indian legal experts over leisurely meals in New Delhi's finest hotels. They culled documents at makeshift relief offices outside the Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, seeking the names of potential clients. Their motives, the U.S. lawyers insisted, were pure. As Melvin Belli, the flamboyant San Francisco attorney sometimes called the "King of Torts," put it, somewhat inelegantly, "I am here to bring justice and money to those poor little people who have suffered at the hands of those rich sons of bitches." But others saw less admirable reasons for the legal...
...answer, the author raises a question: Did More die for what he believed or for what he wanted to believe? If indeed'the last enemy for More was not fear but doubt, that makes him no less a hero, and even more of a modern saint. -By Melvin Maddocks
...politicians for Union Carbide to pay the same sort of compensation to Bhopal's victims that it would if they were Americans. Those U.S. rates, under which each claimant could typically win $100,000, are considerably higher than their Indian equivalents. At week's end, three American attorneys, including Melvin Belli, filed a lawsuit in Charleston, W. Va., on behalf of Bhopal victims, asking damages of $15 billion. Said a company spokesman in Danbury: "Something like this happens, and people everywhere begin seeing dollar signs in front of their eyes...
...uncles and numerous cousins all live within ten miles. After graduating from Jasper High School, he spent 15 years in the Air Force, serving as a flight controller, mostly overseas. He returned to Jasper in 1967 to provide a more stable life for his six children: Monica, 31, Melvin, 30, Stan, 27, Terry, 25, Cheryl...
...patient would be home for Christmas, although he quickly acknowledged that it was "very, very unrealistic." For the Schroeders, every extra heartbeat was gift enough. "It's different, but at least it's beating, and I can feel it," said his wife Margaret. Added their son Melvin: "He's just the old Dad again...