Tuesday, June 2, 1998
Pak failed to sell story on Indo-Israel N-deal
Underneath the animated babble about an apocalyptic end to one-fifth of humanity in South Asia in a nuclear conflagration reverberates feverish stories about Jewish conspiracies and Islamic bombs. Do India and Israel have hush-hush nuclear ties? Will Pakistan sell its bomb technology to Islamic countries for big bucks? Will the Gulf nations bankroll Islamabad if the sanctions render it a basket case? The India-Israel nuclear kinship story was first floated in the Pakistani media and has since gathered momentum with some Arab publications taking note of it.
US administration defends Clinton's planned China visit
Administration officials defended US President Bill Clinton's planned trip to China this month, which is under fire from Republicans because of suspected improper technology transfers and other allegations.
Hashimoto loses majority in house
Japan's four-year ruling coalition broke up yesterday when two allied parties cut ties with Prime Minister Ryutaro Hashimoto's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP). The break-up leaves the LDP without a majority in the upper house, but it retained its dominance in the more powerful lower house.
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