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Despite doubts, the Senate backs uranium sale to India...
...beaten by the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the full House of Representatives and the Senate Foreign Relations Committee. But last week Carter won the final set and with it the match-for the time being at least. The Senate voted 48 to 46 to allow the Administration to sell uranium to India. The skein of defeats and the closeness and bipartisan nature of the final vote in the Senate reflected the complexity of the issue, which involved a clash between principle and pragmatism over the way the U.S. should control the sale of nuclear materials abroad...
...complicated and highly sensitive dealings with India on the use of American uranium began in 1963, when the U.S. agreed to supply fuel for 30 years to an electricity-generating plant at Tarapur, near Bombay, provided that it was used only for peaceful purposes. In 1974 India exploded a nuclear device underground; the New Delhi government insisted that it was not trying to develop a weapon but only experimenting to see how explosions could be used "in the field of mining and earth-moving operations." Skeptical international experts noted that the technology involved in such explosions was the same...
...decision calmly. Said a spokesman for Prime Minister Indira Gandhi: "We appreciate the efforts of the President to honor his country's commitments." India now is expected to step up plans to produce all of its own nuclear fuel within four years. Until then, India has enough uranium on hand to keep the Tarapur plant operating at about three-fourths capacity. Editorialized the Hindustan Times: "Americans need to be reminded that their action is not going to stop the Indian nuclear program...
...Frank Libby, 71, nuclear pioneer whose "atomic clock" for dating ancient objects won him the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1960; of a blood clot in the lung; in Los Angeles. A participant in the World War II Manhattan Project, Libby helped develop the gaseous-diffusion method of separating uranium isotopes. In the mid-'40s, he discovered that a radioactive isotope of carbon was a tiny but measurable part of all living matter and, decaying at a predictable rate, could be used to assign an age to dead organic archaeological and geological remains. An advocate of nuclear testing...