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...dark hints that he might launch an attack across his border with Kenya, Uganda's dictator Idi Amin Dada suddenly announced that he would not invade "one inch" of his neighbor's territory. For once there was reason to believe him. With upwards of 300 Uganda-bound fuel trucks stopped in Kenya, Amin's country was rapidly running out of gas. Streets in Kampala and towns around the country emptied of auto traffic as the regime slapped a ban on driving by private motorists; Amin fought back the only way he could -by cutting off the electric...
...threats to take it by force. Then came the raid on Entebbe in July, when Kenya added to Amin's ire by allowing Israel to refuel its planes in Nairobi. After several hundred Kenyans living in Uganda were reported murdered in retaliation, Kenyan border guards began halting the fuel trucks. Amin last week appealed to the United Nations and the Organization of African Unity for aid to counter the blockade, which he warned "may force Uganda to resort to desperate action...
...debate was often blunt. Herbert Scoville Jr., a former assistant director of the federal Arms Control and Disarmament Agency, testified: "To continue to guarantee the supply of nuclear fuel to a nation that has demonstrated its intention to acquire nuclear weapons is to send the wrong signal to the rest of the world." He and other opponents of the sale want the U.S. to use enriched uranium-the nation is still the world's largest supplier-to demand concessions. As one condition of sale, for example, India might be required to sign the nonproliferation treaty...
Reliable Supplier. Unfortunately, the issue is not so simple, said Myron B. Kratzer, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of State. If the U.S. withholds the uranium, India could buy fuel elsewhere-probably from the U.S.S.R. The Indians might then also refuse to allow international inspectors to monitor their reactors. That would remove the only existing outside control over India's nuclear activities. Therefore, Kratzer continued, the U.S.'s best position involves a paradox. The nation can watch over the proliferation of atomic weapons only if it remains actively engaged as a reliable supplier of peaceful nuclear needs...
India's case thus points up the confusions in the U.S.'s nuclear policy, confusions that the NRC cannot resolve alone. The commission will probably approve the uranium sale-on the condition that India sends the fuel's "ashes" back to the U.S. after it has been used. That would remove the temptation to transmute the spent uranium into bomb-quality material. But it would also have the unpleasant effect of making the U.S. responsible for India's radioactive wastes. Nor would such a decision establish the guidelines that are sorely needed on which nations...