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President Bush signaled he wants to reverse decades of U.S. policy by sharing civilian nuclear technology with India, a country that has not signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. Diane and her guests talk about the strategic and political reasons for this shift and describe its possible consequences.
*In the first 20 minutes of this segment, Diane discusses this morning's bombings in the London transit system with London-based reporter James Brandon, U.S. managing editor for the "Financial Times" Lionel Barber, and Michelle Flournoy of the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
Amit Pandya, former official at the U.S. Defense and State Departments, and currently an international management consultant
Ashley Tellis, senior associate at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
Diane talks with a husband-and-wife foreign correspondent team about one of the most memorable people they met during their recent assignment in Mexico - an American-born woman known as "Mother Antonia," who ministers to prisoners and the poor in Tijuana.
Contributions to support Mother Antonia's work can be made via: Sisters of the Eleventh Hour/ St. John Eudes c/o Pat Smith 3542 Governor's Way San Diego, CA 92122 Psmith23@san.rr.com
Mary Jordan, Washington Post correspondent. Together with her husband, Kevin Sullivan, has served as co-bureau chief in Tokyo and in Mexico City, and will soon become co-bureau chief in London.
Kevin Sullivan, together with his wife, fellow Washington Post correspondent Mary Jordan, won a 2003 Pulitzer Prize for foreign reporting.
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