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failed to sound in warning of the rapid rise in temperature, 'Van Mynen said.
Anderson said the safety lapses were in total disregard of the company's standard operation.
Union Carbide was not aware of the violations. Anderson said
Van Myen said four months of intense scrutiny, including more than 500 laboratory experiments, revealed water and iron were involved in the chemical reaction sparking the toxic leak.
The exact source of the water was not known, he said.
The water, which generated the dangerously high temperatures, reacted with methyl isocyanate. Above-normal levels of hydrogen played a part in the reaction, Myanne niven.
A WORKMAN WHO finally realized pressure was "climbing rapidly" ran to the storage tank and reported hearing "rubbing sounds and a screeching noise" from a safety
"As he ran back to the control room he
felt a tug on the tank the tank begin to
crack. "The report said,
Union Carbide officials said a study of its methyl isocyanate unit at its West Virginia plant "all but ruled out" the possibility of a similar accident there.
"We can confidently say: It can't happen here," said Jackson Browning, vice president of health, safety and environmental affairs for the company.
Production of the gas was halted in West Virginia after the Bhopal leak, threatening the jobs of up to 700 people carrying a payroll of $20 million.
Anderson said production would resume at Institute next month in order to provide pesticides to farmers in time for the major growing season.
Topekan found guilty by judge of attempting to smuggle drugs
By United Press International
MIAMI — A Topeka woman who claims drugs were unknowingly planted on her in Colombia was found guilty in U. District Court of attempting to smuggle $720,000 in cocaine into the United States in a stereo tuner.
During the one-week trial Marienne Kent repeated said she was innocent. She claimed someone put the cocaine in her mouth and visited Colombia without her knowledge.
"She truly is in my opinion a victim of the rampant cocaine trafficking that is going on," defense attorney Jeffrey S. Weiner said yesterday. "She says she has no knowledge of the cocaine being put in the tuner."
Chief Judge Frank G. Theis of Kansas, who is trying cases in Miami to help with a backlog, said sentencing for Marianne
Kent would not be scheduled until he received a pre-sentence report from her attorneys. She could receive a maximum of 15 years imprisonment and a $25,000 fine.
KENT, 38, WAS found guilty Tuesday on one count of importation and another count of possession with intent to distribute two kilograms of cocaine.
She was arrested at Miami International Airport on Nov. 21 by U.S. Customs agents after a metal detector revealed a black object inside the tuner. They found that it had been gutted and two kilograms of cocaine were hidden inside.
Weiner said he would not decide whether to appeal the ruling until the judge passes sentence sometime in May.
In court, Kent said she bought the three-year-old tuner for $35 during a one-week visit to the island of San Andres.
Weiner said the cocaine was valued at about $1,000 in Colombia.
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Brock
always agreed, he has earned our respect. We look forward to a new and constructive relationship with the Labor Department."
BROCK SAID HE spoke with Kirkland, "an old friend." by telephone before the nomination was announced and the labor chief indicated his "appreciation of the fact that we have known each other and clearly can work together."
Gerald McEntree, head of the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees, said Brock "knows the vital role working people play in American society. We hope he will prove to be up to the task as he attempts to rescue the Department of Labor
A White house aide, who asked not to be identified, said Regan talked Brock into taking the job while they were in Canada today and Monday on the president's state visit.
from the second-rate status it has been consigned by the Reagan administration."
The aide described Brock as "an old-school politician" reluctant to take the post Brock, a congressman and senator from Tennessee from 1963 to 1977, chairman of the Republican party from 1977 to 1981 and heir to the Brock Candy Co. of Chattanooga, already had cabinet rank as U.S. trade representative.
Corporation acquisitions called outrage by Kirkland
By United Press International
WASHINGTON — AFL-CIO President Lane Kirkland said Wednesday the current wave of corporate acquisitions and mergers is a "bloody scandal and an outrage" because their only purpose "is for somebody to make a killing" financially.
Kirkland, head of the 13.7 million-member labor federation, also spoke about organized labor, the Democratic Party and the future, including President Reagan's new choice of prime minister Jim Brown as labor secretary, in a two-hour interview with a small group of reporters.
"I am disturbed by what I see going on so generally in this whole field of high binding finance and wheeling and dealing." Kirkland said.
"Such things as 'greenmail' and 'leveraged buyouts' and the gobbling up of companies, often with their own money, winding up with structures that are saddled with enormous costs," he said. "In this country without producing a single new item of goods or services," he said.
"THESE WHEELER DEALERS . . the make a pass at a company and run up the stock and then get paid off with $800 or so," he said. "I think it's a bloody scandal and an outrage. Not a single thing is done to enhance the competitiveness of American industry. . nothing is produced, no good comes of it that I can see."
"The object is for somebody to make a killing, pure and simple." Kirkland added. He made the comments when asked about this week's merger agreement between Capital Cities Communications and ABC Television.
indicted Raymond Donovan at the Labor Department, which unions have blasted as second rate. Kirkland said the labor federation welcomes the nomination.
"WE HAVE WORKED with him in many areas over the years," Kirkland said. "While we have not always agreed, he has earned our respect. We look forward to a new and constructive relationship with the Labor Department."
Turning to politics, Kirkland said organized labor was one of the few groups that does not have an official caucus within the Democratic Party. He criticized the existing caucases for draining party resources while failing to put resources in.
On Reagan's naming of Brock to replace
Kirkland suggested an entrance fee of perhaps $1 million for full recognition and of another $20,000.
The labor leader supported a variety of changes to strengthen the role of the party in elections, including a reduction in the number of primaries to "reduce the cost, the wear and tear on the candidates and the train on resources."
It was the AFL-CIO's unprecedented early endorsement of Walter Mondale before the state primaries that led to a lingering campaign charge that Mondale was in labor's pocket.
Kirkland also said:
- The AFL-CIO is preparing a list of American companies doing business in South Africa and is "prepared to engage vigorously with the targeted, disinvestment campaign."
- He opposes renewed aid to Americans supported "contras" fighting the government of Nicaragua because "we have have a victim in this war," and in other groups, up the hill and abandoning them.
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