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Rice Prods Congress on India Nuke Bill

By FOSTER KLUG
The Associated Press
Thursday, November 30, 2006; 8:17 PM

WASHINGTON -- Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says relations with India could
suffer if Congress fails to satisfy White House objections to legislation that would
allow shipments of U.S. civilian nuclear fuel to India.

Critics of the plan say the Bush administration wants to remove what they say are the
few remaining restraints against the spread of nuclear weapons. The plan, which
President Bush considers a priority, would reverse decades of U.S. anti-proliferation
policy.

Rice's misgivings were expressed in a letter to leading lawmakers that The Associated
Press obtained Thursday.

Her intervention could complicate prospects for approval of the legislation. Lawmakers
are trying to finish work on a final version of the bill before they leave for the year.
They must reconcile competing bills passed by the House and Senate.

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