Thursday, August 6, 1998
Comrades at war
To explain the action against the leaders to its cadres. The party used to depute E.M.S. Namboothiripad to explain its crucial decisions to local leaders and cadres.
Hiroshima as a civilisational metaphor
In August 1945, two people gave accounts of the fearful mushroom cloud which from that point of time onward has cast its irrevocable shadow on human existence. One was Shuntaro Hida, a young doctor -- Japanese -- attached to the Hiroshima Military Hospital and the other, William T. Laurence, a young air force officer -- American -- on the mission that dropped the atom bomb over Nagasaki, three days later.
Nuclear vision -- Vajpayee shows wisdom; now forge a consens
The government evidently does not judge this the appropriate time to make a comprehensive statement on post-Pokharan-II security policy. However, the Prime Minister did take the opportunity of a foreign policy debate in Parliament to set out the broad outlines of what sounds like an emerging nuclear policy.
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