Correspondents' Correspondence

...The technique employed is still top secret...

...The Nuclear Age, a new and authoritative study compiled for the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute by Dr...

...Brown's poems as well, may now be heard in New Hampshire...

...Gandhi vociferously upholds its values in her public speeches around the country, it will now be up to her to abide by the rules of the game.-Darryl D'Monte Nuclear Spread London-The plutonium wastes released by any atomic reactor can be employed to set off a nuclear explosion, but the use of enriched uranium can produce a far more powerful weapon...

...The one thing they have in common is the paranoia of all countries...

...Gandhi has been reacting to these domestic problems with growing imperiousness-what one observer has termed her "polished ruthlessness.' The quality, as many people here have been noting, is one that her father, a liberal aristocrat-statesman schooled at Harrow and Cambridge, England, never displayed...

...Even justices of the Supreme Court have not been so bold as to believe they know what fine distinctions separate acceptable work A from unacceptable work B. Of course, his new duty of monitoring morals is going to keep Thomson rather busy...

...Poor fellow...

...Gandhi's popularity, which reached a peak in 1969 when she forced a split in the ruling Congress party that strengthened her hand and launched the Garibi Hatao (Quit Poverty) campaign with much hoopla, has very clearly been on the wane over the past several months...

...He reads it, and then decides if others may hear it...

...Similarly, a law prescribing a low ceiling on a candidate's campaign expenses-about $5,000 -only adds to the incentive to raise funds illegally...

...The money-making exploits of stalwarts like Railway Minister Lalit Narayan Mishra, who was assassinated recently, and Bansi Lal, Chief Minister of the state of Haryana, are public knowledge, although Mrs...

...That kind of abuse exists at every level of government, and it pales into insignificance when compared with the misdeeds of the Nixon Administration...

...Kathy Starbuck...

...At first glance one might conclude that all this was merely a fiscal maneuver, since the state's required matching contribution was correspondingly reduced...

...They have been calling him a Right-wing kook, a racist from Georgia, a threat to the state who was always prejudging things...

...Plans for a large-scale plant call for an investment of some $690 million, according to the government's initial, modest estimates, and this amount is likely to double before completion...

...Consider her story Re: Femme, where a senator says of his wife on the campaign trail: "So it's a sort of psychic gang-bang for my lady Mary Meg-like fucking every voter in the state...

...At the same time, corruption has become commonplace within the Congress party...

...Gandhi has been found guilty of doing during her 1971 campaign...

...Its new membership in the club was made possible by five years of research, vast funds and scientific espionage...

...Nevertheless, this story, and Ms...

...Previously, Mrs...

...Gandhi could file an appeal before the Supreme Court, scheduled to return from vacation in mid-July, and that body's impartiality is in question: A few years ago, Mrs...

...Indeed, as the economic situation worsens, she has been resorting more and more frequently to authoritarian measures that jeopardize the nation's democratic system...

...He won't have to see all the movies that come here because they are not subsidized by the state (and New Hampshire can't be responsible for the whole filthy world...

...Gandhi's very presence at an election for a Congress candidate to Parliament or a state assembly would tilt the balance in his favor...

...The nations listed range from stable and humane democracies to dangerous dictatorships...

...Since then, though, enough additional details of Becker's investigations have been published for technologists with sound financial backing to succeed on their own...

...Indeed, this was the reason the governments possessing the enrichment technology refused to assist Prime Minister John Vorster's regime in its endeavors...

...The root of the corruption, ironically enough, lies in the very Parliamentary system that India adopted, lock, stock and barrel, from Westminster...

...Development of the process began with a series of visits by eager scientists from Dr...

...Well, not all of those charges are true...

...Not long ago, under close questioning by the Republican Governor, Arts Commissioner John Coe stated there was no way he could guarantee that language unacceptable to Thomson would not be included in the readings...

...Whatever the outcome of her appeal, the lower court verdict could prove to be the turning point of her turbulent career...

...Thus they search for weapons of constantly greater destructive capacity, wish to undermine the effectiveness of agreements designed to safeguard mankind and seek to disqualify isolated and powerless international authorities from the administration of global affairs in the modern world...

...E. W. Becker, a German scientist, and involves forcing uranium through nozzles of high-speed gas...

...Although the original procedure was quite expensive, consuming large amounts of energy, the South Africans appear to have made considerable savings through subsequent research at home...

...As a result, some 25,000 persons are now being held as political prisoners throughout the country (Amnesty International estimates that there are at least 15,000 in the state of West Bengal alone...

...The efforts of Pulitzer Prizewinner Maxine Kumin, of Nikki Giovanni, of the prolific May Sarton, had been inspected and found safe...

...Alberts' offices to Dr...

...But the liberties the Prime Minister has taken with the democratic process and the corruption she has harbored within her party have so angered the opposition and large sections of the public that the Allahabad court's findings are seen by many as the final straw...

...Prices are rising, and in many remote villages grain is simply not available...

...Clearly, Thomson had stayed up nights...

...Several critics have even gone so far as to suggest that she has been compromised by dishonest practices of her own son Sanjay, who has bagged a lucrative license to manufacture what has been dubbed a "people's" car...

...Even the country's obvious strategic nuclear ambition (continually reiterated by its officials, most recently by Dr...

...Pretoria's claim that its production costs are as much as 35 per cent below those for other enrichment processes is probably acceptable...

...She has demonstrated more than once that she is capable of immense guile and perseverance when it comes to asserting her political power...

...In the final lines of his poem, "New Hampshire," he observed: "It's restful to arrive at a decision...

...Today, with the stigma of a conviction and with mass movements against her in various parts of the nation, her appearance could well be a liability rather than an asset...

...And restful just to think about New Hampshire...

...Now South Africa has completed its first pilot unit with the same capability...

...Neither potential domestic consumption of nuclear power nor probable legitimate exports justify this expenditure...

...Emergency powers that permit officials to imprison citizens without trial-such as the Maintenance of Internal Security Act and the Defense of India Rules-are also being used against opponents generally...

...Your poems must first be approved by none other than Governor Meldrim Thomson Jr...

...Moreover, the man has courage...

...The arts agency, fearful of losing the grant and having to renege on some already scheduled readings, caved in...

...As a result, Thomson vetoed a $3,500 Federal Arts Foundation grant...

...for in a largely illiterate country, voters are too easily influenced...

...Yet three weeks later he announced he would accept a $2,700 grant...

...Meanwhile, the ranks of the educated unemployed are swelling rapidly, fanning the flames of urban discontent...

...Thomson was careful to counter any such impression, however, when he explained the inscrutable logic behind this decision: "I and my staff have checked out the works of the poets whose names appear on the list submitted to me by the Arts Commission, and I accept the grant just for those names only...

...I have it on good authority, however, that it is based on a method invented by Dr...

...But he will have to judge hundreds of artworks, checkout various local theaters and-this is the exhausting part-read all the books purchased by all of the state-supported university and library systems...

...Challenge in India New Delhi-By finding India's third Prime Minister, Indira Gandhi, guilty of corrupt electoral practices and debarring her from any public office for six years, a lower court judge in the world's most populous democracy has done what no judge in the world's most powerful democracy-the Watergate scandal notwithstanding-could do: sentence the Chief Executive...

...How easily he might have rejected the work of Rosellen Brown, for here was literature that required his most subtle critical faculties...

...This explains France's decision in the 1960s to build a uranium-enrichment plant at a huge cost...

...If there is a solution to the problem of nuclear proliferation, it has yet to be found.-Thomas Land The Poetry Critic Concord, N. H.-Poets beware if you want to give a state-sponsored reading of your work in New Hampshire...

...Poverty, far from quitting, has been going from bad to worse for two out of every three of the country's 580 million people...

...The State Arts Commission is offering honorariums of up to $800 per reading, but there is a catch...

...He is not from Georgia: He was born in Pennsylvania and simply grew up in Georgia...

...At present I am living in Vermont...

...The Governor's imprimatur is on their books...

...The main source of opposition, the nonviolent movement against Congress-party dominance in the state of Bihar-led by the aging Gandhian Jayaprakash Narayan-has met with brutal repression...

...Becker's Karlsruhe laboratories, which ended when their host reluctantly shut them out...

...In fact, governments determined to acquire enriched uranium can do so with far less scientific and financial support than South Africa...

...It would be unwise, of course, to write off Indira Gandhi at this stage in her latest struggle...

...The pact, just reviewed by a 65-nation Geneva conference, forbids supplying nuclear materials and technology to those countries that have failed to renounce nuclear weapons...

...Louw Alberts, vice president of the Atomic Energy Board), is not an adequate explanation for the outlay...

...In itself, her use of a senior civil servant and other officials for political ends is by no means all that startling...

...Admittedly, this may prove an illusory victory for the judiciary here...

...But even if the Supreme Court goes to great lengths to demonstrate its independence and then still rules that the 57-year-old Prime Minister may reinstate herself, the verdict against her in Allahabad-her home city and the old political stronghold of her father, Jawaharlal Nehru-has dealt her a severe, and perhaps ultimately a fatal blow...

...Since Mrs...

...Mrs...

...Execution of the sentence has been delayed so that Mrs...

...At least Robert Frost, that old White Mountain laureate, understood...

...Thomson's recent act could aid his reputation among some of his most ardent opponents...

...Gandhi vehemently denies allegations against these and other colleagues when pressed in Parliament...

...Gandhi came under fire for appointing a young favorite, Ajit Nath Ray, as Chief Justice over the heads of his senior colleagues...

...She tried to defend herself at the time by proclaiming the need for a "committed judiciary"-committed, that is, to the goals of a so-called Socialist state...

...Nor does he prejudge poetry...

...But its contention that the uranium will be used only for "peaceful" and ''commercial" ends is on its face absurd...

...and it encourages Congress party members to utilize the vast government machinery for election purposes...

...This is what Mrs...

...The breakthrough suggests that the scientific and technological gap between nations in various stages of modernization can no longer prevent nuclear proliferation...

...Should she win her personal battle against the courts, however, there will remain the critical question of the free functioning of India's democratic system...

...Frank Barnaby, includes an awesome catalogue of 20 states that have already overcome the barriers that in the past had prevented all but the major powers from gaining nuclear arms-and the number is likely to grow...

...Thomson underlined its subservience to him by emphasizing, as he announced his lifting of the veto, that it would continue to submit the names and works of poets for his future approval...

...This leaves as the one plausible interpretation that South Africa is going to form an enriched-uranium "black market," catering to nations that, like itself, have refused to be bound by the 1970 International Nonproliferation Treaty...