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- <text id=90TT0318>
- <title>
- Feb. 05, 1990: Business Notes:Accidents
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
- Feb. 05, 1990 Mandela:Free At Last?
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 53
- Business Notes
- ACCIDENTS
- Haunted by A Gas Cloud
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- <body>
- <p> When Union Carbide agreed last year to pay $470 million to
- compensate victims of the 1984 toxic-gas leak that killed more
- than 3,400 people in Bhopal, India, the company hoped it had
- put the world's worst industrial accident behind it. But after
- less than two months in office, the government of Prime
- Minister V.P. Singh last week disavowed the settlement. New
- Delhi said it would demand the $3 billion in damages that India
- originally sought and would seek to reinstate criminal charges
- against Union Carbide executives.
- </p>
- <p> The Connecticut-based company called the settlement
- "extremely fair" and expressed confidence that it would survive
- the challenge. Experts on international law agreed that the
- settlement is likely to hold up. So far, victims of the Bhopal
- disaster have received none of the $470 million in damages
- because the Supreme Court has postponed distribution until it
- considers anti-settlement petitions filed by Indian groups.
- </p>
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- </body>
- </article>
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