Mar 6 1976
From The Space Library
U.S. failure to renew the Indian government's access to the ATS satellite relaying birth-control and agricultural information to 2400 villages might intensify tensions between Washington and New Delhi, the Baltimore Sun said in an editorial. An alliance of U.S. scientists and environmentalists had already protested the sale to India of uranium for a power station near Bombay; the group had asked the Nuclear Regulatory Commission to require India to demonstrate that the substance would not be used to make bombs, as India had done in 1974 with plutonium derived from Canadian material supplied for a joint atomic energy project. Combined with Ford Administration efforts to use development aid to force India into a more friendly posture, the Sun said that withholding advanced technology used by India for humanitarian purposes would create "an unnecessary blur" between humanitarian and development aid and would exacerbate rather than relax existing tensions. (B Sun, 6 Mar 76, A-12)
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 2829 30 31
