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...violate one or the other. Carter chose to keep selling the materials to Tarapur, contending that refusing to do so would not stop the spread of atomic bombs-and possibly could allow just the opposite. At least, the Administration argued, the U.S. could be sure that the uranium supplied to Tarapur was not being reprocessed into plutonium for bombs. But if the U.S. did not supply additional fuel, India might regard the 1963 agreement as canceled, close Tarapur as well as its other reactors to inspection, and do whatever it pleased with the spent U.S. uranium already there. Thus...
India has, according to routine, asked to buy yet an extra 19.8 tons of uranium to be delivered in 1981. Thus the complex and perplexing issue will surely rise again to plague the White House and the Congress next year...
...Administration's other argument was that rejecting the sale might cause India to turn further toward the Soviets-perhaps by buying from them uranium it could not get from the U.S. One of the goals of U.S. diplomacy in the region is to start re-establishing friendly relations with India, the greatest power on a subcontinent that was unsettled by the fall of the Shah in Iran and is threatened by the Soviets' invasion of Afghanistan...
...York's Senator Daniel P. Moynihan, a former Ambassador to India, warned that India would take a U.S. refusal to sell uranium as an infringement on its "sovereignty." Asked Illinois' Republican Charles Percy: "Do we want to dim the lights of Bombay and let the Soviets turn them back on?" Senator Frank Church, chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, admitted that the question was a close one to call, but asked: "Isn't the President entitled to the benefit of the doubt...
...fight is by no means over. To win the showdown, Secretary of State Edmund Muskie promised that only half the 39 tons of uranium would be sent to In dia immediately. Before the second half is shipped, he said, "we will consult with Congress" on what India is doing to as sure the U.S. that the fuel will not be used to make bombs...