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Monday, May 18, 1998

	G-8 asks India to sign CTBT The world's eight industrial powers (G-8) have asked India to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) and nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) but refrained from slapping collective sanctions against New Delhi for the recent nuclear tests. The G-8 leaders asked India and Pakistan not to deploy nuclear weapons and said Islamabad should exercise maximum restraint in the face of the tests conducted by New Delhi.		You've missed the N-club bus by 30 yrs, US tells India "Sorry. No Admission," is the US response to India's bid to crash into the nuclear club with its tests and can-make-bomb declaration this week. Washington says only those countries which conducted nuclear tests before 1968 could have official nuclear status. This statement came in the wake of reports that India had formally declared itself a nuclear power.
	Exodus on as Jakarta readies for rally The foreign exodus out of Indonesia kept up on Sunday -- following riots which left 500 dead -- as the Army prepared for trouble ahead of a planned protest rally this week. The military assured the public that things were under control, and workers started a cleanup of the week of unrest, but foreign governments were not taking chances.		Hide 'n' seek: CIA muse over N-tests Easily evaded spy satellites. A shortage of clandestine sources. A failure to heed clear warnings. Each of these, observers say, contributed to the CIA's failure to foresee India's nuclear tests. The US spy agency's self-examination is revealing more than a last-minute failure to grasp the significance of satellite photos that indicated nuclear tests were imminent.

Pak media shifts from euphoria to paranoia
From Ghauri to "Shakti", Pakistan's press has been on an emotional roller-coaster, indicating the state of a nation that first felt euphoric and redeemed, and a mere five weeks later trapped and betrayed by its own leadership. Pakistan's press has almost uniformly reacted, in jubilation and panic, to the test-firing of the Ghauri missile and India's newfound nuclear status.

States offered Rs 200-cr sops with eye on power ordinance
Union Power Minister R Kumaramangalam on Sunday announced an annual concession package worth Rs 200 crore to lure state governments into accepting the controversial Ordinance on Power Tariff Regulatory Commissions. The minister said that any state which notified the SERC could avail of Central loans at cheaper rates.

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