The Indian Express -- Expressions

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Friday, July 4 1997

Letters to the Editor

Indo-US relations -- Robin's swan song

In the American scheme of things, an assistant secretary of state is just a cog in the giant wheel of foreign policy making. But few cogs invite more scrutiny than Robin Raphel, the first point person for South Asia, who last week wound up her tour of duty in the state department with warm goodbye letters to her friends in India and Pakistan.

See if it flies -- Judge the new aviation policy on its own

The government's motives for lying about its new aviation policy seem as inscrutable as the everyday statements of its Minister for Civil Aviation. If discovered, they will possibly be indefensible. But this unnecessary act of deception ought not to detract from the merits of the policy itself.

A paternity suit for broadcasting

C.M. Ibrahim may not be the minister he once was, thanks to S. Jaipal Reddy as well as Jayanti Natarajan, but his legacy survives. And not, surprisingly, in the Information and Broadcasting Ministry mandarins but in the echelons of the bureaucracy where `national interest' covers a multitude of governmental monopolistic stances.

The latest provocation

Washington is the problem -- US export controls more a setback

Time-honoured customs