Cotton- Battle of Wits

Illusory Gift-Horses RECENT reports, tom-toming the likely massive investment in aluminium (or at least alumina) in Orissa and Andhra by France and the Soviet Union, respectively, are quite misleading in regard to the benefits of these investments. Both projects would be linked to exports. The French-sponsored one would export 50 per cent of the alumina and smelt the rest into aluminium. The Soviet- sponsored one has offered