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Article: The year of Bhopal? (Union Carbide industrial accident) (column)
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- National Review
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- February 8, 1985
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AT ONE of those round-table talkfests at which one is asked what will stand out in history as the great event of 1984, a seasoned and bright journalist said that the tragedy of Bhopal in India would probably emerge as the distinguishing feature, or scar, of that year. That probably won't, in fact, be the case.
One heated week after the event of September 1, 1983 (remember?), a guest on Ted Koppel's nighttime television show predicted that the event in question would be the enduring nightmare of the postwar era. A second guest (me) predicted that the event, however inflammatory, would not stay in the memory more than three months. Sixteen months later we of ...