After Visa Delay, Prominent Indian Scientist Spurns U.S. Invitation

The U.S. government has taken "exceptional measures" to grant a visa to a prominent Indian scientist whose difficulties in obtaining a visa in February caused outrage in India. U.S. officials scrambled to resolve the dispute before President Bush's trip to India last week. But the scientist's decision to drop his travel plans left the United States with a public-relations embarrassment.

Goverdhan Mehta, a professor of organic chemistry, is a former director of the Indian Institute of

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