The Hindu : Wednesday, April 02, 2003

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Wednesday, April 02, 2003

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The battle for Baghdad
A FEW STARK truths have emerged as the war on Iraq nears the end of its second week and as the U.S.-led forces inch closer to Baghdad. First, the likelihood of getting rid of Saddam Hussein and concluding the battle on a quick and relatively tidy ...

Export with incentives
FAR FROM BEING merely procedural in nature, the amendments to the five-year Export-Import Policy (2002-07) that have been announced significantly expand the scope and content of concessions for the export sector. Besides offering incentives to ...

Leader Page Articles
STATECRAFT
The new neta-babu nexus
By Harish Khare

By playing dirty at the behest of a Union Minister, an officer can buy immunity for himself under the new CVC regime.

Reworking the Paris-London equation
By Vaiju Naravane

France has decided to show restraint... Jacques Chirac too needs Tony Blair. France is afraid of being marginalised within Europe and NATO and fears economic repercussions.

News Analysis
AMERICA AT WAR
Holding the regional front
By C. Raja Mohan

As expectations of a rapid American victory against Iraq fade, many nations will begin to recalibrate their approaches to the war. But what matters most is the potential rethinking within the Arab and Muslim neighbourhood of Iraq. The Bush ...

WAR ANALYSIS
Time is of essence
By V.R. Raghavan

Wars are easy to start but never easy to terminate. It is easy to determine when a war should begin. Once war starts, two if not more parties to the war, plus many operational imponderables come into play. The most important among them ...

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