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The India News Network Dige Tue, 25 Jun 91 Volume 1 : Issue 211
SOURCES: SOC.CULTURE.INDIAN and Network Member Contributions
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Today's Topics:
AIADMK ministry sworn in Tamilnadu
Pakistan Not to Accept Restrictions on its Nuclear Program
Date: Mon, 24 Jun 91 08:33 EDT
From: JANAKIRAMA22@WILMA.WHARTON.UPENN.EDU
Subject: AIADMK ministry sworn in Tamilnadu
Source: AIR news
A fourteen member AIADMK ministry headed by the general secretary
of AIADMK Miss Jayalalitha was sworn in today (24 th Monday) afternoon
by the Governer of Tamilnadu in the Centenary hall of the Madras University.
The ministry includes seven(?) members of the MGR cabinet.
The ministry incldes Mr K.A.Krishnaswamy (who defeated Mr.Stalin, son
of Mr.M.Karunanidhi in the Thousand lights constituency), Mr S.D.Somasundaram
(who is the duputy general secretary of AIDMK), Mr. R.M.Veerappan (who was the
campaign committee chairman for the AIADMK.....since RMV didn't contest the
elections, he has to secure a seat in the assembly within the next 6 months),
Mr. K.Rajaram, Mr.S.Muthuswamy, Mr.Madhusudhanan and Mr. S.Anandan. The names
of the other ministers are not very clear.
Pakistan Not to Accept Restrictions on its Nuclear Program
source:wires
PS Srinivas
ssp2537@zeus.tamu.edu
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ISLAMABAD (JUNE 23) - Pakistan has told the United States that it will not
accept restrictions on its nuclear program, Wasim Sajjad, chairman of the
Senate, said in Islamabad Sunday.
Sajjad, who returned Saturday night from a lengthy visit to the U.S. at the
head of a delegation comprising senior foreign office officials, said in its
consultations with American officials the delegation reiterated Pakistan's
resolve not to give in to external demands that it abandon its peaceful,
research-oriented nuclear program.
Washington has withheld most of its economic assistance to the South Asian
Moslem nation on the suspicion that its possesses a nuclear device.
The aid cut has strained relations between the two countries and Sajjad's
mission was seen as a move by Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif to ''re-establish the
channels of communication'' and remove the differences.
But senior officials in Washington told the delegation that the U.S. was only
willing to resume non-conventional military assistance on condition that
Pakistan dropped any plans to become a nuclear power.
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