BHOPAL-ANDERSON 2 LST

Streeb said once Anderson got to Madhya Pradesh, local
authorities took their own actions recollecting the events of
December 7 when Anderson was detained for a few hours by the
local police in Bhopal.
"Once, we found out that (of his arrest)--- we were
told that Anderson was under house arrest, this is the way it
was put, I believe that there was a union carbide guest house
in Bhopal where he was staying in and he was then told that he
would not be allowed to leave the premises," the former Deputy
Chief of Mission said.
Streeb said then he got in touch with the Foreign
Ministry and said that he we needed the government of India to
intervene in consistence with the "agreement that we had
reached about then."
"And subsequently then, whatever actions they took,
they got him released and brought him back to New Delhi,"
Streeb said giving the sequence of the events.
He said this was a voluntary effort by Anderson to go
to Bhopal and have firsthand look at what happened in Bhopal.
"And then he wanted a safe passage back home."
"All we were focusing on was Anderson's desire to come
to India and to be free to leave again on this particular
trip," he said, asserting that there was no talk on future
legal action.
"No there was nothing, I mean it would have been
totally inappropriate," Streeb said in response to a question.
"I was not down in Bhopal, so I do not know, what
transpired there..What I knew was that I was informed that the
Government would indeed intercede Anderson would be released
and brought back to Delhi so that he could leave the country,"
he said.
"That was the end of our involvement with this thing
other than any effort of humanitarian relief and the like and
we within the US government never really, at least during my
time in India, during the next four years, never really got
involved with any of these issues.. the legal matter or
anything else," Streeb said. PTI