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A couple of contrasting features were filed from south Asia, one blood curdling, one whimsical. For whimsy, meet Bahadur Chand Gupta, a former aircraft engineer, who seeks to instill a love of flying in poor children from the villages around Delhi. NBC's Ian Williams showed us the fuselage of a decommissioned Airbus that Chand Gupta has assembled in a field near the airport. He invites children to travel on a 40-minute imaginary flight, complete with replica seating layout, safety belts, emergency announcements, call buttons and in-flight service. The children exit by the emergency chute.
Bloodcurdling was the Exclusive videotape played by CBS' Lara Logan of a schoolboy from a Pakistani madrassah blowing himself to smithereens next to a USArmy HumVee in Afghanistan. Logan speculated that Barack Obama's diplomacy there will involve the entire region--Pakistan, India, China and Iran. "The region is so connected that any of Afghanistan's neighbors could facilitate peace and security or, as we have already seen, make the situation a lot worse."
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