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To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (721)	5/19/1998 7:33:00 PM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

I guess I was just trying to shoot the messenger on the count of lot of 'ifs','buts','experts'opinions,'what ifs' and the like.Quite childish on my part I must admit.Think nothing of it, willya???

To: LoLoLoLita who wrote (721)	5/19/1998 7:37:00 PM
From: Rational	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 12475

I wrote a similar letter to Bill Clinton today: TOI (5/20/98) US speaker, Kissinger warn Clinton Admn By Ramesh Chandran The Times of India News Service WASHINGTON: In an outspoken endorsement to ''Indian democracy'' over ''Chinese dictatorship,'' speaker of the US House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich, has lashed out at the ''double standards'' of the Clinton administration. In a privately-circulated May 14 ''Dear Colleague'' letter - obtained by The Times of India from congressional sources, Mr Gingrich wrote about the risk not only to US national security but also to the global security scenario by the Clinton administration knowingly allowing the ''transfer of American missile technology to China.'' He said these transfers helped to make Beijing's missile systems ''more deadly through multiple warheads on each missile.'' The Republican speaker from Georgia, in his letter, said this technology may soon improve Iranian missiles as well since recent studies by the Congressional Research Service had documented ''nearly two dozen transfers of missile technology and materials by China to Iran and Pakistan'' which were in clear violation of US law and international treaties. Mr Gingrich pointed out that China had conducted at least 45 nuclear tests and used US technology to improve missiles ''pointed at US cities and they have been the world's worst offender in aiding proliferation of the nuclear demon.'' Despite this overwhelming evidence of continuing Chinese misbehaviour, the Clinton administration has ''continued its failed policy of accommodation and acquiescence,'' he added. In stark contrast, the Congressman wrote, ''the Clinton policy of accommodation towards communist China, the administration roared with outrage when a democratic Indian government chose to test its nuclear capability. India is a country facing potential threat from China. China has deployed nuclear missiles in neighbouring Tibet, improved its missile capabilities with US assistance, and never renounced its claim to part of eastern India.'' Mr Gingrich pointed out that the Clinton administration would rather confront an Indian democracy than anger a Chinese dictatorship. ''This double standard,'' he said, ''in administration actions - disregarding China's far more dangerous actions while sanctioning India - is appalling. With one hand the Clinton administration gives China access to sensitive missile technology, while the other slaps India for trying to protect itself from the consequences of this improved technology.'' (PTI adds: Former US secretary of state Henry Kissinger, too, has voiced support for India's need for a deterrent against China, saying major sanctions against India for the tests it conducted ''are probably a mistake.'' He has warned against the dangers of a long period of confrontation between India and the US. ''I don't believe China has any intention of attacking India with nuclear weapons, but the conventional wisdom has been that deterrence between countries of that size works. If these weapons are a threat to anybody, I believe it is not primarily to China. It is more to neighbours that do not have means of retaliation,'' Mr Kissinger told CNN recently. He, however, said that he felt it would be a good move by India if it accepted the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT). On US sanctions, Mr Kissinger said India has to accept that what it did is not cost-free. ''So some reaction, limited in time, somewhat costly to India, is understandable, but we must not let this thing drag us into a long confrontation, especially since there is nothing we can ask the Indians to do.'' ''Now that the tests have been set off, it would be helpful if India joined the test ban treaty, he said, adding ''they (India) have already said they will do no more testing.'')