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Article: India celebrates but in poverty.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- May 20, 1998
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"The Hindu" is India's national newspaper and if you have a computer and access to the Internet you can go on line and read it. If you don't have a computer you can go to any library and use the one there.
You can dial up and see just how sincerely thrilled the people of India are to belong to the world's not-so-very select nuclear weapons club. You can read in the words of India's best reporters and columnists how last week's series of nuclear explosions - the initiation required to play in the big boy's league - has them actually dancing in the streets.
What motivates the people's jubilation is, of course, the idea that now they are safe because they ...