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...days before Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev flew to Bonn last week for talks with West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt, officials of Ruhrgas A.G., the major West German natural-gas company, gave a boost to the meeting by signing a 25-year agreement for the annual purchase of 10.5 billion cubic meters of Soviet...
Under both President Reagan and his predecessor Jimmy Carter, the State Department argued that once the pipeline entered service in 1984, Western Europe would become vulnerable to threatened Soviet gas cutoffs. Moscow will eventually be shipping 40 billion cubic meters of gas annually to Western Europe, or about one-fourth of the area's estimated natural-gas needs. Warned Assistant Secretary of State Robert Hormats: "In the past, the Soviet Union has used energy exports as a political lever, interrupting supplies to Yugoslavia, Israel and China, among others." Only last month, Myer Rashish, the Under Secretary of State...
Europeans have been pursuing other parts of the agreement in recent 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...
...chewing tobacco. There's nothing worse in the world than farming sometimes. His wife is all wrapped up in a windbreaker; a modified beehive hairdo. When they come in they seem embarrassed by the pretty, heavily made-up Ford girls, with their insincere cooing over all 124 cubic inches of a new Granada. But eventually they come over to the car anyway. The stand there. Elvis is singing an incredibly overproduced version of "Look Away to Dixieland," and no matter how corny that song may be it will still get to you if you still know how to breathe...
...shows as it tries to heal its wounds and survive. Nowhere is this capacity more evident today than in southwestern Washington. It is just a year since Mount St. Helens exploded with a blast releasing 500 times as much energy as the bomb that leveled Hiroshima, and sending a cubic mile of earth into the air. Torrents of hot mud went coursing down the mountainside, flattening trees for miles around and turning the Toutle River into a flood of sludge that swept away several bridges. The eruption killed 34 people, demolished 178 homes and devastated hundreds of thousands of acres...