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To: JPR who wrote (6233)	9/2/1999 2:29:00 PM
From: JPR	Respond to of 12475

ALL: Potpourri 20K Afghan refugees with expired Visas stranded in India, because Afghan Ariana Ailines India route was shut down by India Last week India snapped its last airline links with Afghanistan by ending flights between Amritsar and Kabul. The only international destinations Ariana now flies to are Dubai and Saudi Arabia. These things are political but it is possible they will, Younis said, referring to Washington's ability to end Ariana's last links with the outside world. He said the sanctions left 400,000 dollars of Ariana money frozen in a US bank account but he shrugged off the effects of the sanctions, saying America had only done more harm to its image abroad. This included the stranding of 20,000 Afghan refugees in India with expiring visas, who were expected to be repatriated home through Ariana.-AFP Indian Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Bharatiya Janata Party-led alliance is poised to gain an absolute majority in the general election, a poll said on Wednesday. The poll, conducted last month in 76 parliamentary constituencies spread over 15 states, predicted the National Democratic Alliance (NDA) would win 300 seats in the 545-member Lok Sabha. It forecast a combined tally of 146 seats for the Congress party and its regional partners - down 20 seats from their tally last year. But the change of tack re-opened controversy over her involvement in the election. Mrs Gandhiaccepts the majority sentiment against a European at the top but people are now demanding to know why she waited 15 years after marrying Rajiv in 1968 to acquire Indian citizenship. Some suspect her of retaining her Italian passport when she became an Indian national in 1983. Once an Italian, always an Italian,' crows anti-Congress lawyer Pran Nath Lekhi. Even Dr.Singh, the only prominent politician not touched by political scandal, may be a mixed blessing. India needs his realism but he is better known in high-powered international circles than in India's villages. Meanwhile, Mrs Gandhi's coalition offer may bring small parties to her rescue but is seen by some as admission that she has given up hope of an outright majority. Neither economic nor foreign policy is likely to change substantially if Prime Minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) is replaced by its main challenger, the Congress Party led by Sonia Gandhi, the Italian-born widow of slain former (late) Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.