OTHER NEWS - Dec. 28, 1994

Texaco Inc. Seeks Dismissal of Ecuadorean Indians’ Lawsuit: The oil company said it asked a federal judge to dismiss the suit, which seeks $1.5 billion in compensation for damage to the rain forest. Last year, several Ecuadorean groups filed suit, alleging that Texaco had ruined bodies of water and land while working at the site. They also charged that waste from crude oil drilling had given some of their people cancer. White Plains, N.Y.-based Texaco said it had met a court’s conditions for dismissal of the case by negotiating with the Ecuadorean government an agreement under which Texaco will clean up the site. Lawyers for the plaintiffs could not be reached for comment.