Tuesday, June 2, 1998
Pak failed to sell story on Indo-Israel N-deal
Underneath the animated babble about an apocalyptic end to one-fifth of humanity in South Asia in a nuclear conflagration reverberates feverish stories about Jewish conspiracies and Islamic bombs. Do India and Israel have hush-hush nuclear ties? Will Pakistan sell its bomb technology to Islamic countries for big bucks? Will the Gulf nations bankroll Islamabad if the sanctions render it a basket case? The India-Israel nuclear kinship story was first floated in the Pakistani media and has since gathered momentum with some Arab publications taking note of it.
Govt restores phone, gas quota of MPs
The Government yesterday restored telephone and cooking gas connection quotas for Lok Sabha members and increased them to 50 and 160 each respectively per year. Announcing this, Lok Sabha Speaker N Balayogi said that the quota would be restricted for allotment in every member's constituency.
Cosmonauts replace Mir's failed computer
Cosmonauts aboard the Russian space station Mir replaced a failed computer with a new one to steady the orbiting outpost for the shuttle discovery's arrival. NASA officials were hopeful Mir would be operating normally again before the shuttle's scheduled lift-off today.
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