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...immediate intensification of the long-running dispute between the U.S. and its Western European allies over Washington's sanctions against the Soviet natural gas pipeline. The shipment amounted to an open French challenge of the U.S. embargo: each of the crates contained a French-made and U.S.-designed compressor that will help propel Siberian gas through the 3,000-mile pipeline. It was the first delivery of such pipeline equipment by any Western supplier...
...weeks. Gaz de France, the French government-owned gas company, has reportedly signed up for 7.8 billion cubic meters per year. Italy, The Netherlands, Belgium, Austria and Switzerland are also expected to buy large amounts of gas from the pipeline. Contracts worth about $1 billion for the construction of compressor stations have been awarded to West German and French firms. Still to be negotiated are the contracts for 3.25 million metric tons of steel pipe worth more than $2 billion...
...towing two barges. The loads are the heaviest and tallest ever. From a distance, the grumbling 136-ft.-long tugs look as if they are pulling an entire city across the top of the world. Welded to the deck of one of the barges is a ten-story-high compressor building that will be used to help reinject gas beneath the ground. It looks like a modest cathedral and is trailed by a second barge carrying a fully assembled drilling complex that will house a web of pipes rising from 36 different wells. Cargo aboard the 14 barges is worth...
...snapped into place "like Tupperware," says DeVries. A plastic tube leads from each ventricle through openings made in the patient's abdomen to a breadbox-size console that controls the rate and pressure of air pulsed to the heart. The console in turn is connected to an air compressor. As air flows into each ventricle, it pushes a thin membrane upward, expelling blood that has entered through the atria out through the pulmonary artery and the aorta...
Another issue is the difficulties posed by the bulky support equipment, including a refrigerator-size air compressor. Says Cheitlin: "There was discussion about the logistics of getting the power source into the operating room and eventually into the home. What about backup systems for the home?" Some implant recipients may later be considered for heart transplants at Stanford University. "How," asks Cheitlin, "will they get them from Utah to California...