Sunday 5/31/98 6:06 PM J Orlin Grabbe Read at http://www.aci.net/kalliste/ tonight India vs. Pakistan Another Pakistan Nuke.. Dr. Abdul Qadeer Friday 5/15/1998 Albuquerque Journal, Universal Press Syndicate, Syndicated Columnist Richard Reeves writes U.S. Indignation at Indias Nuclear Testing Hypocritical London - So, India has conducted its second test of a nuclear weapon, and its third, fourth, and fist and sixth, in the past few days. That put it 1,026 tests behind the United States. ... This has been coming for a long, time - and we have been foolish or deliberately looking the wrong way for decades. Fifteen years ago, in 1983, we the Reeves family, were living in the district called E-7, the best neighborhood in Islamabad, the capital of Pakistan. (My wife was doing work involving refugee camps in the northwest of the country, across the border from the Afghan-Soviet war.) Like everyone else around there, including American diplomats, we knew why military car arrived each morning to take the fellow around the corer, Abdel Qadeer Kahn, to his office - or laboratory. Kahn was in charge of building the bomb out in the Pakistani desert at a place called Kahuta. This was the so-called Islamic bomb ready for use against India, which had conducted its first test in 1974. Whatever we though, Pakistanis believed nuclear weapons were essential to checkmate the change of being overwhelmed by India., their 10-time-as-big neighbor. ... Small world. See Los Angeles Times syndicated columnist Richard Reeves at http://www.jya.com/whp052898.htm John Young's voice telephone is being picked-up by his fax tonight. Let's all hope for prompt peaceful settlement of the unfortunate matter. Later bill