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Jan 1, 1984 - The break-up of AT&T took place as the telecommunications giant was divested of its 22 Bell System companies under terms of an antitrust agreement. |
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April 8, 1984 - Retired Army Lt Col Harry M. Child, former post commander at CAMP ATTERBURY, 1960 - 1961, died in Nashville, Indiana. |
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May 7, 1984 - A $180 million out-of-court settlement was announced in the Agent Orange class-action suit brought by Vietnam veterans who charged they had suffered injury from exposure to the defoliant. A consortium of Dow Chemical and other manufacturers paid $184 million to veterans from the US, Canada, Australia and New Zealand but not South Korea. May 23, 1984 - Ohio National Guardsman PFC Derek H. Landers goes on trial in death of soldier during war games at CAMP ATTERBURY last summer. Found not guilty in shooting of soldier with flare. |
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Nov 6, 1984 - President Ronald Reagan was reelected. Nov 7, 1984 - Nineveh election officials challenge registration of CAMP ATTERBURY Job Corps Center residents. Nov 19, 1984 - CAMP ATTERBURY Installation Support Unit (CAISU) is established and absorbs personnel of ATS which is disbanded. |
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Dec 3, 1984 - More than 4,000 people died and 200,000 were injured after a cloud of gas escaped from a pesticide plant operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary in Bhopal, India. 11,000 suffered long term effects. 40 tons of vaporous methyl isocyanate, hydrogen cyanide, monomethyl amine, carbon monoxide and possibly 20 other chemicals were released after an explosion.
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