INTERNATIONAL

India Seizes Union Carbide Dividend: An Indian court ordered seizure of $2.3 million in dividends that an Indian subsidiary owes Union Carbide Corp. for the years 1984 to 1991. The multinational company has a 50.9% stake in Union Carbide India Ltd., owner of the chemical plant in Bhopal in central India that spewed poison gas that killed more than 3,800 people in late 1984. The court--hearing a petition filed by a government agency against Union Carbide officials that the petition said were responsible for the world’s worst industrial disaster--had on April 30 ordered seizure of its Indian assets. Union Carbide last month announced from its Danbury, Conn., headquarters that it planned to sell its controlling stake in its Indian subsidiary.