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Article: Bhopal is for lawyers. (Union Carbide Corp. industrial accident)

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January 11, 1985
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Bhopal Is for Lawyers

WHEN DISASTER strikes far away in the Third World, the French send doctors. The Swedes send food packages. We send lawyers.

""Get Union Carbide' is the slogan,' announced tort lawyer John P. Cole of Washington when he arrived in Bhopal. It happened that Mother Teresa arrived on the same plane with the American contingency-fee boys. The contrast between the diminutive nun and the swaggering tortsmen did not go unnoticed. "Forgive, forgive,' said the winner of the 1979 Nobel Peace Prize. "I just ask everyone to forgive.' That sort of attitude doesn't cut much ice on the litigation circuit.

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