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Strategies & Market Trends : India Coffee House
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To: JPR who wrote (436)5/12/1998 8:57:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette  Read Replies (1) of 12475
 
JPR: I am as baffled as you are.Washington embarrassed???

From Washington Post. Excerpt only as link to the article is given in
my previous post to Ramesh.

"Washington's enthusiasm for a tough response was no doubt deepened by its embarrassment at having failed to see that the blasts were coming. This failure stands in contrast to an episode in December 1995, when U.S. spy satellites noticed suspicious work under way at the Indian test site at Pokaran, and U.S. diplomats intervened in time to dissuade the ruling United Front coalition from going forward.

This time, India's military and top officials of the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party were more cautious as they prepared for the explosions. As one U.S. intelligence official put it yesterday, "We were as shocked as anybody" due to Indian concealment efforts that deprived policymakers and the CIA of any advance warning.

Another U.S. official said, "We knew that the BJP had always taken the position that India should be a nuclear power ... but the political analysis was that they would not actually go through with this, that they would not do something that would be this costly." Whatever trust had existed between Washington and New Delhi on this issue will not be easily revived, according to this official and several others......

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