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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...
...small explosion sparks a fire within a local laboratory, releasing half a liter of toxic nerve gas agents through a broken window into the atmosphere. A warm summer's breeze carries the cloud of nerve gas past a nearby highway, motel, bowling alley, playground and disco. In a matter of minutes, several hundred unsuspecting people are subject to the devastating effects of toxic substances...
...think there is clear and present danger at this facility." Patrick Pollino, an ADL official, reiterated yesterday. ADL safely uses small quantities of toxic substances at a state-of-the-art laboratory, kept in containers and transported by aimed, guards, according to Pollino...
...Ruckelshaus. "He was a very talented apologist for the President's horrible policies," contends Marion Edey, executive director of the League of Conservation Voters. "But," she concedes, "when he wasn't busy defending bad policies, he was working hard to improve them." Environmental groups complained that the toxic-waste program, while freed of favoritism, still moved much too slowly. Ruckelshaus urged action to reduce the impact of acid rain, but when he was overruled by the White House, he stoutly defended the Administration's decision merely to order more studies of the problem. Critics also note that...
...driving administrator. A former South Carolina public safety official, Thomas had been with the Federal Emergency Management Agency when it played a key role in the federal purchase of many homes in Times Beach, Mo., because of dioxin contamination in 1983. Ruckelshaus placed Thomas in charge of the U.S. toxic-waste program...