Friday, July 10, 1998
Jaswant, Talbott meet a hush-hush affair
Prime Minister's special emissary Jaswant Singh yesterday met US Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott under a veil of secrecy even as the Clinton Administration in Washington asserted that India's stand on having "minimum nuclear deterrent" was unacceptable and that it should sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) "immediately and unconditionally." The two held discussions at an undisclosed venue with officials on both sides remaining tightlipped over the deliberations.
Anti-curbs bill in Senate likely
Leaders of a US Senate taskforce appointed to review sanctions policy in the wake of nuclear tests by India and Pakistan have agreed on a compromise legislation that would allow some of the penalties to be waived, Delaware Senator Joe Biden has said. Biden, senior Democrat on the bipartisan task force, said the legislation would exempt agricultural export credits from the sanctions imposed on India and Pakistan and give President Bill Clinton the power to waive other penalties.
US spoiling for war in cyber space: Post
The United States is now developing strategy for fighting cyber war both offensive and defensive in nature, using computers to penetrate foreign intelligence, incapacitating the war fighting capabilities of enemy nations by cyber attacks, and developing defences against penetration of American networks. It has considered manipulating cyberspace to disable an enemy air defence network without firing a shot, shut off power and phone services in major cities, feed false information about troop locations into an adversary's computers and morph video images (to cause confusion) on to foreign broadcast stations
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