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...Indian Foreign Secretary Krishnan Raghunath meets with U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Strobe Talbott in Washington. Raghunath has not been told of the testing plans but is instructed to tell Talbott that New Delhi is still busily conducting its long security review. In hindsight, says National Security Adviser Sandy Berger, "they were not forthright." At the CIA operations center, no order is sent out to spend the millions of dollars and precious fuel that would be required to move the four satellites out of their regular--now compromised--orbits...
...blasting open a mountain pass to killer warheads able to obliterate cities. "The Indian leadership has gone berserk," says Pakistani Foreign Minister Gohar Ayub Khan, as his country refuses to rule out detonating its own test nukes. No one is more dumbfounded by it all than Clinton when Berger enters the Oval Office to tell him about the blasts. His jaw drops. "Why?" is all he can manage...
...countries that conducted underground tests, then signed the test-ban treaty. Vajpayee has stopped short of promising that India's tests are over, but he has hinted that he may now adhere to "some" of the treaty's provisions. Burned by India's artful dissimulations, says James Steinberg, Berger's deputy, "I don't think we'd necessarily take whatever they say as gospel...
...agenda for Chequers are social security, welfare, crime, health policy and education, with eight to 10 participants from each side. Among them are Mrs. Clinton and Sandy Berger, the White House National Security Adviser, along with David Blunkett, Blair's Secretary of State for Education and Employment, and Peter Mandelson, his strategist and closest political adviser. "It's a chance to examine the basic principles we have in common, to sharpen our thinking and to talk about common pitfalls," says a participant...
...characters are only as strong as the writers, according to Berger. The show's head writer took time during the panel to discuss the interplay between writers who are concerned with "what can I do with Grover in restaurant" and the necessity of meeting curriculum goals for each scene...