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...Defense Department and most of the President's staff, out of genuine outrage but also because of a reflexive belief in the power of the public relations gesture, urged sanctions. To the advocates of this policy, the trans-Siberian pipeline-designed to carry up to 20 billion cubic meters a year of natural gas 3,300 miles from Siberia to Western Europe-was just the sort of highly visible issue that would focus and dramatize Western reaction...
...century," but in the West it is better remembered as an unnecessary source of tension between the U.S. and Western Europe. The Reagan Administration vigorously opposed European plans to help build and finance an $18 billion, 2,759-mile pipeline designed to deliver up to 20 billion cubic meters a year of natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe. The U.S. not only barred American companies from working on the project, but it imposed economic sanctions (suspended five months later) against West European participants. But as the U.S. and its allies squabbled, the Soviets kept on building. Indeed, according...
Thousands of cubic feet of waste are currently shipped to disposal sites far from the campuses, at costs exceed to exceed $1 million in the 1983-1984 year...
...addition to the real estate assessment on the bridge, Draper will have to pay the city 27 cents per cubic foot, or close to $10,000 annually, to purchase an air rights license for the location over Broadway...
...prairie. It is the site of the U.S. Army's Rocky Mountain Arsenal, which produced weapons and chemical agents until 1969. It now harbors corroded canisters of mustard gas, lethal phosphorus wastes from incendiary bombs, unexploded rockets and mortar shells embedded in a former firing range, millions of cubic yards of soil peppered with pesticides and an abandoned five-story production plant contaminated with nerve gas. Two vast man-made lagoons, once used as dump pits for toxic chemical and biological wastes, are the worst menaces of all. Toxic wastes have leached out of both ponds, infecting the area...