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Meanwhile, French authorities announced the arrests in Paris of eight suspected terrorists, at least some of them with close ties to pro-Iranian extremist groups in Lebanon, on weapons and conspiracy charges. Besides guns and ammunition, twelve quarts of the liquid explosive methyl nitrate were found, leading officials to believe the suspected terrorists were planning a bombing campaign similar to the one that rocked Paris last fall. Police described all of the suspects as devout Shi'ite Muslims, and six of them carried expired Tunisian passports...
...cloud of deadly methyl isocyanate gas poured out of the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killing more than 2,000 people. Since then, Carbide officials have offered allegations that the world's worst industrial accident may have been the result of a deliberate act. Last week the company went further, declaring that their pretrial investigation was focused on a disgruntled employee. According to an earlier report in the London Times, the employee, an Indian citizen, might have been trying to spoil a batch of the chemical after a row with his supervisor...
After a cloud of deadly methyl isocyanate gas from the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, killed more than 1,700 people and injured an additional 200,000 in December 1984, American law firms representing the victims filed suit in the U.S. Damage awards are generally much lower in India than in the U.S., and Carbide, not surprisingly, argued that the case should be handled in that country. In Manhattan last week, U.S. District | Court Judge John Keenan ruled that because nearly all the witnesses and evidence are in India, the suit should be heard there...
...where some 73 million gal. of Italian wine are imported every year and sales have been booming, federal officials warned wholesalers and importers not to distribute any Italian wines until samples could be tested for methyl alcohol. Then the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms advised drinkers not to touch Italian wines until tests showed that they were not contaminated. The Italian embassy emphasized that the only products that had so far been discovered to be tainted were cheap varieties that sold in Italy for about...
Despite these efforts, there was no doubt that Italy had suffered a traumatic blow. In Denmark, where a 6,613-gal. shipment of cheap Italian vermouth was found to contain dangerous amounts of methyl alcohol, officials issued a ban on all Italian wines. West Germany imposed border controls requiring Italian wine imports to be cleared by government chemists. And in France, the government seized 4.4 million gal. of suspect wine and dumped at least 1.3 million gal. Clearly, it would be a long time before the world's consumers fully recovered their confidence in one of Italy's best-known...