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Bofors trail leads to Austria, UK
The Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) team visiting the Channel Islands to investigate the Bofors case suspects that money from the three offshore accounts may have been re-routed to, possibly, Austria and the UK. The team has identified the three Channel Island accounts from which the money was transferred to banks and individuals in the two countries. The CBI will now have to prepare letter rogatories for the governments of Austria and UK.
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N Ireland peace talks in final phase
The search for peace in Northern Ireland enters a crucial final phase on Monday, when politicians in the British-ruled province resume negotiations in Belfast, with only three weeks to thrash out a deal. Representatives of the pro-British Protestant majority and the large pro-Irish Roman Catholic minority have been given time until mid-April to chalk out a compromise to end 29 years of violence which has claimed over 3,200 lives.
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New buildings a threat to Sonia!
The Urban Development Ministry's plan to house four Ministers in the prized Lutyen's New Delhi complete with an acre of garden near 10 Janpath is now stuck. Citing security considerations, Congress president Sonia Gandhi's SPG has objected to the proposal.
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US army can use N-bombs sans presidential nod
The US military has authority to use nuclear weapons on its own if it cannot reach the President in an emergency during the time of Eisenhower, according to declassified documents. The authority to act on its own and launch nuclear weapons was given to the military under Eisenhower's "pre-delegation" memo of 1959.
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