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...Abdul Jabbar Khan, of the Bhopal Gas Peedith Mahila Udyog Sanghathan, a group for female victims, says the disaster poisoned Bhopal's soul. "The shame of Bhopal," he says, "is that there's no humanity here today. People began to spend their lives in queues, for ration cards, for hospital, for compensation. We became a city of victims, a city of beggars, with nobody caring for anyone else." Psychiatrist Santosh Tandon, 45, said the "disempowering" effect of the catastrophe, which left a whole city unable to provide for itself, was overwhelming. "The gas took away Bhopal's spirit," he says...
...hunt down and kill a group of insurgents hiding somewhere in a block of 12 darkened houses. It is 1:45 a.m., and the soldiers have been running from fire fight to fire fight for 48 hours straight with no sleep, fueled only by the modest pickings from their ration packs. As they searched through nine of the houses on the block, the soldiers turned up nothing. When they trudged into the 10th house, though, a trap was sprung: the insurgents had lured them in and then opened fire, forcing Bellavia's men to scramble out of the house...
...Rather than setting up registration stations that could be attacked by insurgents and requiring Iraqis to face intimidation from naysayers upon entering and leaving, the electoral commission - comprised of a UN adviser and eight Iraqi technocrats appointed by the UN - has opted to base the voter roll on the ration cards issued to Iraqi households by the UN to supply them with food during the decade of international sanctions. In November, when the heads of most Iraqi households collect their ration cards for 2005, they'll also be invited to register. (Other arrangements will be made to accommodate returning exiles...
After studying the surrounding terrain, I went to one corner of the field and stuck my heel in the ground. This would be the upper left corner of the first grave. I found an empty K-ration carton and split it into wooden stakes. I paced off the graves in rows of 20 and marked them with the stakes. I had no transit, tape measure, shovels, picks or any other equipment needed to establish a properly laid-out cemetery...
Despite the fact that all men have turned in to the University their ration books for the precious white powder, officials apparently felt it necessary to cut consumption. There were no complaints about the new restriction, but several books on bee culture were borrowed from Widener during the evening...