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Article: BHOPAL SUIT SETTLED FOR $470 MILLION.(Main)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- February 15, 1989
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Byline: Earleen Fisher Associated Press
Union Carbide Corp. agreed Tuesday to pay $470 million to the government of India in a court-ordered settlement resulting from the 1984 gas leak at Bhopal that killed more than 3,300 people in the world's worst industrial disaster.
Activists in Bhopal denounced the settlement as a betrayal of the 20,000 victims who still suffer from exposure to the deadly gas that escaped from a pesticides plant on Dec. 3, 1984. The government had sought $3 billion in damages.
Chief Justice R.S. Pathak interrupted a government prosecutor's routine argument when the court reconvened after lunch, and ordered the U.S.-based ...