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Off the Record
Benazir says cake was there!
KARACHI : Pakistan could have slaved off a damaging US aid cut off bill for the folly of highlighting Ila nuclear programme. former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto said on Monday, reports Reuter.
• The United Stales cut 560 million dollars In economic and military aid lust October because of fears that Pakistan was de veloping nuclear weapons.
Bhutto said she could have pacified Washington had she not been ousted by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan tn August.
1x1 me tell you that something could have been worked out •wit Itou t affecting Pakistan's Defence needs al all. she said 1n ' an Interview al her home in Karachi.
"We could have had our cake and eaten It too If It had noi been for the folly of pulling on the switch.*
US sources speaking private^, sny that Pakistan restarted enriching uranium towards weapons grade material early last year as tension rose with Its neighbour India over a Muslim revolt in disputed Kashmir.
Pakistan, despite denials, is widely beheved to cither possess nuclear weapons or to be close lo making them. India exploded a device In 1974 but also denies having nuclear weapons.
Pakistan's main nuclear facilities at Ils highly secret Kahuta plant outside Islamabad are said by experts lo be more advanced than those of Iraq, which were a prime target of Allied forces tn the Gulf war.
Baghdad radio tempers tone
NICOSIA : Official Baghdad radio on Tuesday tempered Its triumphant tone and compared Iraq to Japan and Germany In the aftermath of World War II reports AFT*.
For the first time since Iraq's defeat al the hands of US-led allied forces last month Ihe radio steered clear of describing the outcome of the hostilities as a great victory for Baghdad
The miracles performed by Japan and Germany In the fields of business and technology after the Second World War provide examples of Ihe ability of peoples to renew themselves. the radio said in a commentary monitored here.
Whatever the outcome of the battle, history will remember thal the Iraqis were among those who stood up to ihe Invaders. according to the r-ommentary.
The radio likewise aired remarks by a Palcsltnian militant. Abul Abbas of the f*alcslinc UbcraBon From. suggesting thal Iraq did not in fact win the Gulf war.
The results of a single bailie arc not the definitive results in the historical war between freedom and oppression. he Kild.
Hoxha casting shadow even from grave
VIENNA : Even from his grave. Albanian leader Enver Hoxha Is casting a long shadow over I he itny Balkan country he ruled unchallenged for 40 years, reports Reuter.
The legacy of the communist hard-liner, who died in 1985. Is at the centre of a bluer and sometimes violent struggle between those who want to reform the system Ire pursued and those who want a clean break with the past.
Wlicn angry crowds pulled down statues of Hoxha in llruna and other Albanian towns fast month, the communist government's response seemed to reveal limits lo how far and fast it was prepared to go on reforms begun last December
The figure of Enver Hoxha cannot be tom down because it personifies the biography of the people, the history of new Albania." his successor Ramiz Alia said three days after the event.
The Communist Party and the Albanian people are proud of having had such a leader".
US troops safer in the Gulf
WASHINGTON : President George Bush on Tuesday said American troop* may have been safer In the Gulf war than they would have been walking the streets of some US cities and < ailed on Congress to pass stiffer crime laws, reports Reuter.
"Now that the shooting has stopped overseas we've gut to redouble our effort* to silence the guns here al home." Bush told a gathering of mure than 650 police chiefs and law enforcement authorities.
Today the fear of ertns strikes too many American famt Hes." Bush said, "parent•• fear for their kids In school, and on the way home."
Pointing to the efforts of American combat troops in the Gulf. Bush said that "during tl* hr st three day* of the ground offensive, more Americans were killed In some American cities than al the entire Kuwaiti front.
-Hunk of II. one of our brave national guardsmen may hove actually been safer tn the midst of the largest armoured offensive In history than he would have been on the streets of his hometown." Bush said.
It's outrageous. Its wrong und it s going to change .
The Defence Department list* three Americans as killed to ground combat during the first three days of Hie land offcn stvc An additional 28 died tn a Scud attack that hit their barracks in Saudi Arabia