Saturday, June 20, 1998
US aims to throttle dual-use tech export to India
While allowing American firms to continue doing business in the subcontinent, US sanctions detailed on Thursday are aimed primarily at throttling the flow of high-end dual use technology to India, several US officials and experts said. Technology exports to India will now be run through a fine tooth comb, to the extent that even the passage of a set of precision screwdrivers to an Indian entity will attract scrutiny.
Yeltsin faces impeachment but has the law on his side
The State Duma, lower house of the Russian parliament, yesterday in an unprecedented move voted overwhelmingly to form a commission to impeach President Boris Yeltsin. Constitutionally, Yeltsin has little to fear from a legal procedure that favours him almost every step.
Former Nazi officer goes on trial in Italy
A former Nazi German officer was set to go on trial Friday, accused of having had 15 Italian partisans shot in 1944 in an attempt to discourage local people from supporting the resistance. Theodor Saewecke, 87, from Bad Rothenfelde in the North German state of Lower Saxony, faces a sentence of life imprisonment for homicide, but is being tried in his absence by a military court in Turin.
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