Did they celebrate too soon? It was billed as an epoch-making deal between the world's two biggest democracies that would turn decades of estrangement into partnership. Last December, when America's Congress gave its initial blessing to a controversial nuclear deal that President George Bush had struck earlier with India's prime minister, Manmohan Singh, supporters in both capitals were euphoric. No longer. India's top diplomat is due in Washington on April 30th to try to rescue the plan. So why has the fizz suddenly gone out of it all?
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