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...years ago, dump trucks bigger than houses haul 175-ton loads of rock. The Martiki mining operation is centered around the "Mountain Mover," a power shovel about the size of a small airplane hanger. The shovel's huge bucket--which can easily hold a pickup truck--takes 76-cubic-foot bites out of the mountain 24 hours...
...French banks extended the Soviets $140 million in credit to help finance the deal. Both West Germany and Italy are also committed to supplying credits and technology for the pipeline. Administration officials believe that the project, which when completed (current target: late 1984) will pump more than 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Western Europe, will only increase European dependence on Moscow. What is worse, say U.S. officials, the deal will ultimately provide the Soviets with hard currency to continue their arms buildup. Even the British lack enthusiasm for economic sanctions, though Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...
...general director Pierre Delepurte, felt it had made sufficient headway to move the final round of discussions to GDF headquarters in Paris. Two-days later, at 11 p.m., the deal was struck: for the next twenty-five years. France will receive--via a trans-European pipeline--eight million cubic meters of natural gas from the Soviet Union, in addition to the four billion it already buys. By 1990, one third of France's gas and five percent of all the energy it consumes will come from Siberia...
...Soyuzgas-export is hardly surprising. Already this fall, several members of the European Economic Community--including France and West Germany--entered into joint venture with the Soviet Union for the construction of a natural gas pipeline that is to run from Siberia to Western Europe. Besides, eight billion cubic meters of gas is the equivalent of five nuclear reactors. Hence the deal with the Soviets will allow Mitterrand to slow the growth of the French nuclear industry, an avowed goal of the president...
This is a nostalgia gone delightfully mad, and the reader is happy to inhale it by the cubic yard. But it comes flirtatiously close to novelizing, a practice Keillor claims in a funny preface to have forsworn after one grotesquely bad unpublishable failure. He writes short pieces, he says, in homage to The New Yorker's former great infield of James Thurber, A.J. Liebling, S.J. Perelman and E.B. White...