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VIENNA
Austria
July 15
1998 - The U.N. Security Council will
decide if it will scale back its nuclear inspections in Iraq on the
basis of an IAEA report. The report states that in the last seven
years there was found no evidence of an Iraqi nuclear weapons
program.

MANDI GOBINDGARH
India
July 13 1998 - India will not bow to
international sanctions imposed after its nuclear tests
according to
India's Prime Minister Vajpayee. American and Indian officials will
meet in Frankfurt this Thursday to discuss the possibilities of India
joining an international test ban treaty
but Indian officials think
its unlikely the two will reach an agreement.

ISLAMABAD
Pakistan
July 11
1998 - Pakistani Prime Minister Sharif
said Saturday that the country will have to pay the price for its
nuclear tests
but sees no serious problems. Pakistan faces a
possible debt moratorium. Since sanctions were imposed after
Pakistan's nuclear tests the stockmarket has plunged and the rupee
devaluated drastically.

BOMBAY
India
July 10
1998 - In India a music video was released by
the Hindu nationalist party to celebrate India's nuclear tests.

WISCASSET
Maine
July 10
1998 - The shipment of nuclear waste from
Maine Yankee's npp to Texas is temporarily stalled after a Texan
court declared the Sierra Blanca nuclear waste site unsuitable
because it lies on a fault line. The Texan Natural Resource
Conservation Commission
which has final authority on licensing the
site is expected to decide on the site this fall.

WASHINGTON
July 9
1998 - A U.S. Senate task force has decided
agricultural exports will be exempted from the sanctions imposed on
India and Pakistan. It further gives President Clinton the authority
to waive other penalties.

WASHINGTON
July 15 & 16
1998 - An application for a U.S. visa by
the head of India's atomic energy commision was send back to him

with the explanation that visa policy is currently under review as a
result of the Pakistani and Indian nuclear tests. Washington is also
reviewing its scientific cooperation with the two countries.

WASHINGTON
July 15
1998 - North Korea is believed to own more
plutonium than it reported after the 1994 agreements to freeze its
nuclear program. U.S. State Departement spokesman Rubin said North
Korea will not be allowed to use the two light water reactors it was
promised until the discrepancy is solved.

WASHINGTON
July 15 & 16
1998 - The U.S. House Select Committee on
Intelligence has concluded that countries like North Korea
Iran or
Libya are capable of developing ballistic missiles that could reach
the American mainland within a couple of months or years. The CIA
claims the missiles under development by these countries only have
the capability to reach Hawaii or Alaska.

NEW DELHI
July 10
1998 - India will not bow to Western pressure to
sign the CTBT
India's prime minister Vajpayee said Friday. India is
prepared to discuss the subject though. Vajpayee also repeated a call
for Pakistan to sign a no-first-strike pact with India.

WASHINGTON
July 10
1998 - According to a former Pentagon official
China has been able to obtain supercomputers and other sensitive U.S.
technology that was forbidden for the Soviet Union.

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