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Monday, May 18, 1998

	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.		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.
	Pakistan will test nuclear device: Gohar Although a spokesman for Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif denied a report that Pakaistan had conducted a nuclear test, Pakistan Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan said in Islamabad that his country will go ahead with a nuclear test. He, however, said that the timing of the explosion was yet to be decided. Pakistan prime minister Nawaz Sharif added that Pakistan needed just a 26 hours notice period to carry out the test.		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.

Mahathir hits out at IMF for Jakarta unrest
Unrest in Indonesia has given Malaysia's outspoken prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, fresh ammunition for blasting the International Monetary Fund. Mahathir all but blamed the IMF for provoking Indonesian riots with its demand for a reduction of subsidies as part of an international rescue package.

Syria helped IRA kill Mountbatten, says paper
Syrian secret agents were involved in the Irish Republican Army's assassination of Lord Mountbatten in 1979, one of the IRA's most spectacular attacks, the Sunday Times reported. The paper said Syrian military intelligence "rewarded" the paramilitary group with two million pounds for the murder and other actions.

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