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| Boston Globe 16 August 1988 |
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| DISASTER MEETING |
| RUNS INTO DISASTER |
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| United Press International |
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| CHICAGO -- Organizers of the first international disaster conference |
| said yesterday they had come face to face with the real thing -- a |
| calamitous lack of interest that forced them to cancel the meeting. |
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| "It is absolutely amazing, given the things that have happened recently |
| -- like fires, AIDS, bridge collapses, and contamination of the |
| beaches," said Sandi Eberhard, president of the public relations firm |
| representing the conference organizers. |
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| Kotch and Poliak, a New York firm that specializes in organizing |
| industrial expositions, had rented Chicago's McCormick Place, the |
| largest exhibition hall in the country, and a stellar slate of disaster |
| experts was lined up for the three-day conference in early November, |
| Eberhard said. |
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| "Canceling this is a bit of disaster itself," she said. |
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