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...City-of-Cambridge-sponsored Ethiopian concern committee will hold two benefit concerts this month at Harvard to raise money for the famine-stricken nation...
...Bhopal who had inhaled the gas faced lingering fears and possible long-term medical effects, while Union Carbide had to face the complex financial and legal fallout from the disaster. Even as the Indian Central Bureau of Investigation set into motion its official inquiry, U.S. lawyers descended on the stricken city to help its residents file multibillion-dollar lawsuits against Union Carbide...
...fact, the world's tragedy that occurred in Bhopal, not only because one saw fellow mortals stricken but because the industrialized society has created a shared fragility. The sources of enhancement are also the sources of fear and peril-all the chemical plants, nuclear power plants and other strangely shaped structures concocting potential salvation and destruction in remote and quiet places. The citizens of Bhopal lived near the Union Carbide plant because they sought to live there. The plant provided jobs, the pesticide more food. Bhopal was a modern parable of the risks and rewards originally engendered...
...Hence the unease. One does not have to impute venal motives-a desire for glory or a lust for publicity-to wonder about the ethics of the choice. The motive was science, the research imperative. Priority was accorded to the claims of the future, of children not yet stricken, not yet even born...
They said they expect to send the money through the group that guarantees that all of the funds will be used for immediate aid to the famine-stricken African country...