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entsen claims he has matured
ince giving advice under Truman
^ WASHINGTON (AP) — Lloyd
^ Bentsen said he’s older and wiser
1M fian when, as a 29-year-old con-
/ | I gressman, he urged President Tru-
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creation^* Bentsen, now 67, a U.S. senator
nentigrai the Democratic vice presidential
^Bominee, said Tuesday he wouldn’t
“At the time, you have to remember, we were losing
50,000 American and the Marines were really being
booted around and we were being kicked off the pen
insula. So you have to put it in that time period, and at
that time we controlled the bomb. ”
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1 As a freshman congressman, he
was among the first in what grew to a
long list of public figures calling for
Xlse of nuclear weapons as North Ko-
Blean troops pushed American and
■Jnited Nations forces back down
die Korean peninsula.
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Kdering such an option, but in No
vember 1950 he said use of atomic
weapons was being considered.
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outh Korea on June 25, 1950. As
te allied military position deterio-
ated, Bentsen took the floor of the
Blouse on July 12.
is were' ■ “Whtt 1 I called for was giving
oloniaj .Mhem seven days notice to withdraw
Bo the 58th parallel or to use that
was do i me to evacuate their principal cities
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The Congressional Record re
flects similar language in his floor
statement.
“We are fighting this battle with
one hand tied behind us. Let us use
everything we can to end this war
now,” Bentsen said in 1950. “There
are those who will recoil in horror
and condemn such action. . . . My
suggestion may result in my being la
beled an alarmist or an extremist,
but if it should result in an earlier
end to this warfare and the saving of
American lives, as I believe it will,
then I mind not the labels.”
The speech met with a show of ap
proval in the House, said the edition
of “Facts on File” for that week 38
years ago.
Bentsen repeated his sentiments
before cameras on the Capitol steps,
and a film clip appeared in a 1982
documentary, “The Atomic Cafe.”
Asked if he would take the same
position again in the same circum
stances — knowing what he knows
now — Bentsen said he would not.
“I must say, I’m an older and
wiser man,” the Texas senator ex
plained.
Questions of age and judgment
have been raised in the 1988 presi
dential campaign by Bentsen and his
running mate, Democratic presi
dential candidate Michael Dukakis.
They have suggested that the Re
publican vice presidential nominee,
41-year-old Sen. Dan Quayle of In
diana, is not seasoned enough to be a
heartbeat away from the presidency.
“At the time, you have to remem
ber, we were losing 50,000 Ameri
cans and the Marines were really be
ing booted around and we were
being kicked off the peninsula,”
Bentsen said in the interview. “So
you have to put it in the time period,
and at that time we controlled the
bomb.”
Here’s the grim picture he
painted in 1950:
“The seriousness of this situation
is difficult to overemphasize. With
each new day, our newspapers tell of
American men retreating, of our
troops outnumbered and out
gunned. Our forces are on a penin
sula surrounded by water on three
sides and by the enemy on the
fourth — an enemy with a force we
have underestimated, Korean allies
whose strength we have overesti
mated.”
The Korean War was to last until
July 27, 1953, when an armistice be
gan. U.S. losses were put at 54,660
killed and 103,284 wounded.
In explaining his stance, Bentsen
said Tuesday that in 1953 then-Pres-
ident Eisenhower used a threat of
nuclear weapons to break a stale
mate with the North Koreans in the
peace talks.
“Eisenhower used that same
threat. . . . And that brought the
North Koreans to the peace table,”
Bentsen said.
But Eisenhower opposed the use
of nuclear weapons in Korea in
1950.
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Tj I MORRISTOWN, N.J. (AP) — Diamond
■ * Bihamrock Chemical Co. began its court fight
■ .BVednesday to force more than 100 insurance
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* ^Iflpuld a precedent setting effort.
I The company is also seeking reimbursement
from its insurers for payments to Agent Orange
iictims.
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jincauo.y|j| urance company lawyer Stefano Calogero said,
ifgfcalogero is involved in the case which went to
Brial Wednesday.
ifl At stake is the Dallas-based Diamond Sham-
tetr iixbiBock’s estimated $21 million share of the $180
>n ‘^Bnillion settlement between makers of the defo-
m f> "“‘Miant used in Vietnam and those who sued over its
joverar effects.
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a S ere ? federal judge in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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adopted, the cost could increase by millions of
dollars more, although neither side can give ac
curate estimates.
Environmental officials in 1983 found huge
concentrations of dioxin, a byproduct of the her
bicide production, which has been linked to cer
tain cancers, liver disease and a severe skin rash
known as chloracne.
Gov. Thomas H. Kean declared a state of
emergency in the area and the state Department
of Environmental Protection and U.S. Environ
mental Protection Agency took emergency steps
to clean up the area.
Attorneys are closely watching the outcome of
the trial here, which is expected to last five to
eight weeks, insurance company lawyer Robert
Bates, who represents two defendants, said.
It is one of a handful of such cases to go to trial
and likely to be the first with a decision. It is tak
ing place in a state where the most environmental
insurance cases — 10 to 15 — have been filed, he
said.
“This is the landmark case, in some respects,”
he said.
DEP spokesman James Staples said, “Ob
viously it has precedent-setting potential.”
The insurance companies charge that Sham
rock, which sold the plant at Lister Avenue in
1971 and bought it back in 1984, purposely mis
led regulators and bypassed pollution controls
for the sake of profit.
Because the company’s action led to an “ex
pected and-or intended” result, the insurers are
absolved from having to provide coverage, their
lawyers said.
In opening axguments in the trial, insurance
company lawyers said Diamond Shamrock
poured thousands of pounds daily of hazardous
chemicals into the Passaic River, sometimes at
night.
In one case, two workers were sent out in a
rowboat to break up a mound of the insecticide
DDT which hadn’t dissolved and was visible at
low tide, charged attorney Stephen Cuyler.
The dumping of herbicide chemicals into the
environment was having the same devastating ef
fect in Newark as it had in Vietnam, Calogero
told Superior Court Judge Reginald Stanton,
who is hearing the non-jury trial in a Colonial-
style courtroom in New Jersey.
“They’re pretty seriously exaggerating the sit
uation,” Diamond Shamrock attorney William
Hegarty said. “It just didn’t happen the way they
say it happened.”
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