Iraq risked nuclear weapon capabilities with available reactor assets
Debate centers on whether Iraq could have made a bomb using a French reactor, enriched uranium, and a near finished hot cell. MIT experts say capability existed. three paths are outlined: using enriched fuel for a warhead, making plutonium in Tammuz, or training a hidden nuclear program for future production while evading inspectors.
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Boston
Iraq
Israel
Norman C. Rasmussen
MIT
France
Gordon Humphrey
Cambridge Based
Union of
Italy
United States
Soviet Union
Humphrey
Richard Lester
Tammuz
Libya
International Atomic Energy Agency
Baghdad
Lester
Washington State
Rajiv Gandhi Emerges as Heir to Indira in India
Rajiv Gandhi returns to Delhi after a landslide win in Amethi and is greeted calmly by family and supporters. He rejects grooming for prime ministership and remains modest, seen as the healing force in Indian politics while Indira Gandhi wields undisputed power.
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Rajiv Gandhi
Palam
Rajiv
Sonia
Delhi
Amethi
Uttar Pradesh
Congress Party
Sanjay Gandhi
Indira Gandhi
Sanjay
Congress
Mrs. Gandhi
Indian Airlines
Margaret Thatcher
India
Nehru
Jawaharlal Nehru
Indira
Empress
Trudeau rattles Commons as he threatens exit and blasts rivals
In Ottawa Pierre Trudeau fumes in the Commons amid scuffles over El Salvador mediation and economic policy. He derides Ed Broadbent as a dud and Joe Clark as morally bankrupt, while Crosbie and Fleming spar over thumb jerks and government strategy. Broadbent presses for an all party mission to El Salvador. Southam News.
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Pierre Trudeau
Supreme Court
Europe
Canada
NDP
Ed Broadbent
John Crosbie
Joe Clark
Broadbent
Trudeau
el Salvador
Socialist International
Commons
International Socialist Party
Windsor
Mark MacGuigan
Crosbie
Pierre Bussieres
Bussieres
Outremont
Clark
Jim Fleming
Fleming
Donald Munro
Munro
Letters to The News All about Andrew Snaddon
A University of Alberta associate professor writes from Medicine Hat denouncing Andrew Snaddon, former Edmonton Journal editor and new News publisher, for joining the paper as a weekly columnist and suggesting he should stick to business and avoid editorials.
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Andrew Snaddon
The
Edmonton Journal
the News
Snaddon
News
Canada
Mr. Snaddon
F.G. Hulmes
University of Alberta
Edmonton
Lefty John Wright Reach Out From Medicine Hat Past
Former Royal Engineers member and British Army comrade recalls Camp Crowfoot days in 1972 and reunion in 1974 near Germany and Canada. He hopes to reconnect with John Wright nicknamed Lefty who married a Medicine Hat local near Redcliff and now lives in Northern Ireland.
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John Wright
Lefty
Medicine Hat
Royal Engineers
Crowfoot
John
Germany
Canada
Redcliff
N. Ireland
Reader Letters Policy At The News
The News invites reader letters on topics of interest but limits length to 300 words or two pages double spaced. Letters may be edited for grammar and taste. Libellous content will not be published. Signed letters with address and phone number are required.
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