Is there any way to retrieve the cached page using the link from a page that no longer exists?

[NNN0LHI]

Here is the link that I am looking for the cached page of:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1209/dailyUpdate.html

Thanks in advance if anyone knows how to do this.

Don

[ManiacJoe]

1. If you know what was on the page,

use the search feature on that site for the appropriate keywords.

Google can be used to search for it and sometimes has a cached record of it.

Archive.org might have a copy.

[blogslut]

2. Does this help?

http://web.archive.org/web/20041209084348/http://www.csmonitor.com/

[DaveJ]

3. Is it this Rumsfeld article?

I Googled parts of the URL and came up with this with text transcibed:
http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:NeqNrqDNe3sJ:nucnews.net/nucnews/2004nn/0412nn/041209nn.txt+csmonitor+2004+1209+dailyupdate.html&cd=3&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=us

Halfway down is this:



The other news Rumsfeld made
US arms sales to India and Pakistan are the third rail of South Asian diplomacy.

csmonitor.com
By Jim Bencivenga
December 9, 2004

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1209/dailyUpdate.html

Most US media covered US Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld's town-hall discussion with US troops about aging vehicles that lacked armor for protection against roadside bombs.

But he also made news in India on Wednesday where he grappled with the complicated and geopolitically sensitive issue of American weapons sales to nuclear-armed Pakistan and India.

Mr. Rumsfeld's goal for visiting India was to build stronger defense ties with the world's largest democracy, reports the BBC.

By making India "a key destination of his first foreign foray in the second stint of the Bush Administration," he signaled "that the two countries were ready to transform relations into practical steps by saying that Washington wanted the defense ties to be further 'knitted' together," reports IndiaExpress.

Cooperation on space and nuclear technology and the sale of the Patriot missile for anti-missile defense were also on the agenda for the visit.

The Times of India reports that:

The US is keen to take ongoing military cooperation with India to the next level by expanding the size and scope of bilateral defense exercises, supply of military wares, and other exchanges.

But just hours before Rumsfeld's arrival, Indian Foreign Minister Natwar Singh, in an address to the Indian parliament, pointedly expressed his country's displeasure at the prospect of US arms sales to Pakistan, reports the BBC.

'We have pointed out that the supply of arms to Pakistan at a time when the India-Pakistan dialogue is at a sensitive stage, would have a negative impact," Mr. Singh told the lower house.

Officially, Rumsfeld did not respond to Mr. Singh's warning and he "did not mention anything about America's decision to supply $1.5 billion worth of arms to Pakistan over the next five years," says the Times. He did say that the US has yet to make a decision on the sale of F-16s to Pakistan and that the Congress must assess the move, along with sales of surveillance aircraft and anti-tank missiles.

If this were not enough to test the former college wrestling champion's diplomatic skills, Rumsfeld was also greeted by the news that Pakistan had test-fired a medium-range missile capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and hitting targets up to 420 miles away, reports The Gulf Daily News. The missile was launched from an undisclosed location, a military spokesman said.

Pakistan President General Pervez Musharraf, on a visit in France when the missile was tested, told journalists "We know they are a nuclear power and they know we are. We inform each other when there are missile tests," reports Gulf Daily News.

Mr. Musharraf touted recent "confidence-building measures," between his country and India. "Pakistan's policy is based on minimum defensive deterrence," Gulf Daily News quotes him as saying.

And while Rumsfeld was discussing weapons sales in India, Musharraf was discussing weapons purchases, specifically Mirage fighter jets with French President Jacques Chirac, reports the Dawn, a Pakistan-based online newspaper.

'President Chirac agreed to support Pakistan's case for free market access in the European Union,' the president told newsmen after two hours of talks at the Elysee Palace.

During the talks, President Musharraf said, he discussed the purchase of French aircraft, adding that Pakistan was looking for avionics, electronic warfare equipment and collaboration in other defence fields with France.

The US has already signed off on supplying eight new P3C Orion long-range anti-submarine aircraft to Pakistan plus more than 2000 TOW-2A anti-armor guided missiles. It will deliver new generation radar systems, and upgrade old P3C Orions already with the Pakistan Navy and provide other spare parts, reports the Times.

The Indian Navy seeks to purchase similar P3C and TOW-2A missiles.

Reflecting the complex and highly charged diplomatic maneuverings in the region, the Times of India in its lead editorial on Thursday urged India's military leadership to continue discussions on arms sales with the US, especially anti-missile defense:

The offer to India should evoke interest among those involved in nuclear command and control. India is pledged to no-first use. Hence, this country would be keen to shield its ultimate decision-making authority from a bolt-from-the-blue nuclear strike, either through missiles or low-level penetration aerial strike. It may be recalled that in the anti-ballistic missile treaty of 1972, both sides agreed to have two missile defence sites each, one for the national command authority and the other for a missile field.

Meanwhile, negotiations between India and Pakistan on the mundane but not inconsequential matter of bus routes between their countries stalled over proper documentation for Kashmiris, reports Calcutta's The Telegraph. Pakistan did not want Kashmiris traveling to Pakistan required to use an Indian passport, thereby suggesting the disputed territory was part of India proper.

The bilateral talks are considered a bellwether not only on the status of Kashmir but on relations between the two nuclear powers who have fought two of their three wars over Kashmir since independence from Britain in 1947, says the Telegraph.

That the two countries did not release separate statements blaming the other for failure to reach an agreement speaks volumes of their restraint and the desire to keep the dialogue - conducted in a 'frank, cordial and constructive atmosphere' - going. In the past, a slanging match would have ensued at the end of failed negotiations.

Pakistan and India are in the midst of a peace process that has struggled to gather momentum since a change in government in New Delhi earlier this year, reports Reuters.