Texans file suit seeking $50 billion for Bhopal gas victims
A Texas law provision could give Texas courts jurisdiction in a $50 billion lawsuit against Union Carbide. Houston attorney Benton Musslewhite leads a team alleging negligence in the 1984 Bhopal disaster that killed about 2,600 people. The suit seeks $20 billion in actual damages and $30 billion in punitive damages, arguing Indian courts are slow and less accessible to the victims.
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Beaumont
Union Carbide
Bhopal
India
Texas
Houston
Benton Musslewhite
United States
Musslewhite
U.S
Baffled owner recovers wallet after 40 years
In Louisville, an elderly stranger delivered Leroy Gaines a wallet lost over four decades. Gaines signed a non prosecution paper as the man left without explanation. The wallet held his Social Security card, draft card, photos and money, returning amid lingering questions about the motive.
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Louisville, Ky
Leroy Gaines
Gaines
Oil prices fall to five year low amid OPEC doubts
In New York trading American oil traders doubt OPEC can curb cheating as prices plunge to five year lows. West Texas intermediate closed at 25.92 a barrel the lowest since 1979, with February futures dipping to 25.86. Heating oil and gasoline also declined amid the market slide.
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New York
OPEC
West Texas
U.S
Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries
First Boston Corp
Randol
New York Mercantile Exchange
West Texas Intermediate
Exchange
Mary Ann Matlock
Weather halts search for Andes Eastern jet crash site
Bad weather with heavy fog and rain delayed efforts to reach the crash site on a snow covered Andes slope. Officials say 29 passengers and crew, including eight Americans, are presumed dead as helicopters and planes were grounded at El Alto airport and rescue teams stood by at the base of Il limani Mountain. The plane appears to have crashed head on with debris scattered over a wide area.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Eastern Airlines
Andes
Eastern
el Alto
Red Cross
Illimani
Finnish border guards search for suspected missile
Finnish authorities and Norwegian officials describe a possible errant Soviet cruise missile crossing into Finnish Lapland after flying from the Barents Sea and over Norway. Radar tracked the object near Lake Inari. pilots saw nothing on interception.
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Helsinki
Finland
Lapland
Lake
Inari
Norwegian Defense Ministry
Norway
Defense Command
Ole R. Boltmann
Barents Sea
Rovaniemi
Mauno Koivisto
Erik Senstad
Oslo
Rustrata Lake
Pasvik
Scandinavian
Stockholm
Wilhelm Hoegre
The
Moscow
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Jim Hollon
Jill
Jim
Rick
Sally
Century Lane
Geneva
William Randol
New York Securities Firm
Vivors
Torbjoern Froeysnes
Foreign Ministry of
NATO
Dagens Nyheter
Hoegre
Frederik Bull-Hansen
Bollmann
Los Angeles
Reagan
Arctic
Orway
Kiruna
YUSSR
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