Correspondents' Correspondence

...Such systems were in common use in many technologically advanced countries some 30-40 years ago, only to be abandoned with the advent of low-cost, mass rural electrification...

...Admittedly, it will be more difficult and cosdy to build and maintain the machines offshore than on land...

...The Nairobi conference should accelerate this trend.-thomas Land Juggling Judges Bombay-with characteristic nonchalance Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has revived a tactic she last employed during the infamous "emergency" six years ago: She is seeking to transfer 50 High Court judges from their present posts to permanent judgeships in other states of the Indian Union...

...As a result, the matter is now before the Supreme Court...

...Most of all, though, the criticism has been rendered hollow by an instinctive sense that Israel's action has for the first time forced the world-especially the West -to grasp the danger building up behind the proliferation of nuclear technologies among dozens of small nations, many of them politically unstable...

...Its newly installed first commercial wind power generator stands only 40 feet high, but a 3 megawatt giant, almost 250 feet high from its base to the tip of its rotor, is scheduled to enter service two years hence at an initial investment of roughly $11 million...

...A huge aerogenerator program is about to be launched in the United States...

...That it shall not care for orders of the Supreme Court to the point of refusing to tell it whether it has carried out its orders or not...

...The government's objective is to weed out, by harassment, everyone appointed to the bench by the Janata regime during its roughly three years in office, from 1977-1980...

...Vohra, who delivered a ruling against the late Sanjay Gandhi, the Prime Minister's notorious son...

...But the fact is that the courts, along with the press, are the only checks here on misuse of power-especially given the current enfeebled condition of the opposition parties.-darryl D'monte...

...It is a promising sign that mills of local manufacture have been proving successful in rural areas of Kenya and Tunisia where they have been adequately serviced and promoted...

...When the Bombay High Court restrained the government from implementing the circular, an acrimonious debate ensued in the Lok Sabha, or lower house of Parliament...

...This perception may be partly due to what critics claim is a national paranoia and people here see as a not entirely unjustified Holocaust complex...

...Wind power is therefore slated to receive close examination next August in Nairobi, where the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) is sponsoring an international conference to discuss the global possibilities of new and renewable energy supplies...

...But windspeeds are higher out there than over open land, although not quite as high as on the best hilltop sites...

...The Osirak strike has suddenly brought into relief the abyss to which this irresponsible conduct has led the world...

...One cannot avoid the suspicion that this exposure contributed significantly to the outrage that greeted Israel's dramatic action.-eliahu Salpeter Working Windmills London-dismissed until recently as the pipe dream of environment-conscious idealists, the technology for "electrifying the wind" has finally become commercially competitive with more widely-used sources of energy...

...Finally, should a clearly marked victim wait until nuclear explosives were being produced to strike at their manufacturing facilities, he would himself be guilty of setting off a nuclear explosion...

...This violated the constitutional provision requiring each Chief Minister to consult his Chief Justice of the High Court prior to taking such action...

...There will be the extra expense of getting the power ashore...

...In resorting to it, Mrs...

...It is questionable wisdom to begin with to give an elephant gun to somebody who says openly that he plans to kill his neighbor, Israelis believe, nor is punishment after the act any consolation for the intended victim...

...The British plans for offshore windmills have been formulated with these objections in mind...

...it will appoint whom it will and pay no attention to what a Chief Justice recommends...

...Anchored in coastal waters, the windmills "would be much less obtrusive," observes Glyn England, chairman of Britain's Central Electricity Generating Board...

...Britain has begun making commercial use of generators on the Orkney Islands off the coast of Scotland...

...In matters of nuclear life and death, Israel is saying, there is a crucial difference between a country having grave, even fundamental, disputes with another, and its being committed to the destruction of the state it finds offensive...

...And the generators could be a hazard to fishing vessels...

...Even the new mills on the Orkney Islands -probably the windiest spot in Europe-will substantially complement but not entirely replace sources that can be relied upon in any weather...

...And when it comes to nuclear armaments the analogy is plainly inadequate for several compelling reasons: First, the destruction caused by an atomic bomb is quite out of proportion to any reasonable risk one might be asked to take...

...None of these considerations, however, are covered by the existing concepts of national sovereignty and "mutual deterrence" governing relations among the powers already possessing nuclear capability...

...One Delhi jurist already awaiting his "sentence" is Justice O.N...

...The threat of transfer is the surest way of undermining the independence of the judiciary and insuring pliable judges...

...Undaunted, Mrs...

...Partly it is probably a consequence of the rather effusive "righteous indignation" of prominent statesmen, including those from countries where Baghdad was able to buy the components for a plu-tonium separation laboratory...

...That is the crux of what Israeli's bombing of the Baghdad reactor is really about...

...Overall, 110 judges out of more than 400 in the Supreme Court and 16 High Courts would be involved...

...Thus from the viewpoint of international law, Iraq is in a state of active belligerence against Israel...

...Neither can such a country be given the benefit of doubt about its declared intentions, considering the finality of the risk this would entail...

...Second, so is the nature of the blackmail available to a belligerent ruler in possesion of nuclear weapons...

...The greatest drawback to wind as an energy source, of course, is the fact that the wind does not blow all the time...

...It is a measure of how Israel's own mentality has been affected by the double standard applied to it on the international scene that in defending the decision to destroy the Osirak facility, Jerusalem did not emphasize its self-evident right to hit back at a country that has refused to agree to the cessation of the hostilities it began...

...Several big wind machines now functioning are producing kilowatts at a price comparable to that of an atomic power plant, and more modest units in use or being planned in Europe provide electricity cheaper than diesel generators...

...In preparation for the meeting, a panel of specialists has been assessing this long-discounted natural resource...

...While the Nairobi conference panel claims that the advantages of wind power outweigh the disadvantages, it does point to some problems...

...Small-scale wind energy conversion is ideally suited to satisfying the well pumping, cattle watering, irrigation and domestic needs of small farmers and rural communities...

...Last April, the Union Law Minister sent a circular to all state Chief Ministers instructing them to obtain the agreement of the 50 designated judges to their transfer...

...Moreover, unlike their Arab neighbors, Iraq's leaders have persistently refused to sign any truce or armistice agreement with Israel, lest they be tainted by the acceptance of even temporary coexistence...

...Osirak Fallout Tel Aviv-the majority of Israelis tend to view the torrent of condemnation directed at them following the bombing of Iraq's nuclear reactor as one more example of the bias of other nations against the Jewish State-particularly since oil became " king"in international politics...

...At a previous FAO-sponsored conference the European Commission on Agriculture agreed to create at least 15 model farms or villages that are self-sufficient in energy, and will involve an integrated system of windmills, solar panels, local waterfalls, hot springs, and biomass units...

...The possible gains from such an experiment are enormous, especially in developing coutries where fragile economies have been crippled by rising oil prices...

...But the panel has noted that, at present, the new, small-scale wind machines are often unpopular in developing countries because of the relatively high price of importing units and their poor reliability...

...The big wind machines are noisy, are considered by many to be a blot on the landscape, and produce electrical interference...

...According to conservative estimates, an array of windmills ranging from the gargantuan to the tiny could well supply something like 20 per cent of the world's energy requirements by the turn of the century...

...Gandhi has so far refused to respond to the Supreme Court's request for information on why the transfers are being sought...

...Yet improvements in design are bound to lower costs and upgrade performance...

...Gandhi hopes to bolster the strength of the executive...

...She has of ten said that the courts stand in the way of social justice...

...This does not diminish wind power's importance, however...

...In other words, where "nationcide" is an official government policy the protection of normal behavior in international relations cannot be expected...

...In the case of Iraq, although it has no common border with Israel, it has sent substantial expeditionary forces to participate in every attack against the Jewish State from the 1948 War of Independence to the 1973 Yom Kippur War...

...For two decades now, Western countries-much more recklessly than the Soviet Union-have been selling nuclear know-how, facilities and material to all who are willing to pay for them...

...Sweden, West Germany and Denmark have already initiated ambitious wind power endeavors...

...And within five years, Britain intends to create perhaps hundreds of "wind farms," with aero generator smoored in the stormy North Sea...

...As the executive editor of the independent Indian Express, Aroun Shourie, wrote recently: "The Government has demonstrated...