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To: JPR who wrote (1612)	6/22/1998 8:48:00 AM
From: Mohan Marette	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12475

Foreign Policy-Uncle Sam is having second thoughts. JPR: Check this out. Excerpts from Washington Post ...Within the Clinton administration, realization is growing that if relations are to be repaired, India's position may have to be accommodated. "We agree that they will be an important global power in the 21st century," a senior administration official said last week. "We are trying assiduously to take into account the Indian world view," a view that he said includes resentment that China, a communist country with a long history of nuclear proliferation, is in favor with the Clinton administration while India, a democracy with no record of nuclear proliferation, is taking an international drubbing. This official said some in the administration, seeing India only through the perspective of nuclear proliferation, want to do more to curb its aspirations to be a nuclear power. But others are more eager to put aside the administration's anger and sense of betrayal and resume efforts to build a constructive relationship with the South Asian giant......... ....Chandra said India sees China aiding Pakistan, militarizing Tibet and cementing ties to the military government in Burma -- in effect encircling India at the same time it is being courted by the United States. "Should India live in constant trepidation?" Chandra asked. "To expect a people who constitute one-sixth of mankind to be outside the network of nuclear guarantees that others have is not acceptable." Chandra was particularly scornful of Albright's comment that India has squandered the pacifist legacy of Mohandas K. Gandhi and of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru, who often irritated the United States back in the 1950s by calling for a global ban on nuclear weapons, an objective India says it still seeks. "I didn't know she admired Nehru so much," Chandra said. "He was never listened to by the United States back when he was calling for a nuclear standstill. I'm so glad he's been discovered."... <i...>"India is now a nuclear weapon state," Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee said in a statement to parliament after the tests. "This is a reality that cannot be denied. It is not a conferment that we seek; nor is it a status for others to grant. It is an endowment to the nation by our scientists and engineers. It is India's due." economictimes.com washingtonpost.com