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Harvard's worst financial nightmare has finally shown signs of ending during the past year. The Medical Area Total Energy Plant (MATEP) has by no means transformed into a dream come true, but the controversial diesel facility may become fully operational by late summer because of an unbroken string of regulatory and court victories over environmental and citizen activist since November...
Meanwhile, top priority for British antisubmarine aircraft and frigates last week was to locate Argentina's diesel-powered Santiago del Estero. The World War II sub, built by the U.S., has a 12,000-mile range and poses an unnerving threat to the liners Canberra...
...abruptly canceled, quarreled with that as sertion. The QE2 can make the 8,000-mile voyage to the Falklands in about ten days at a speed of 28.5 knots (or 32.8 land miles per hour). Its speed gives it the capability of escaping from an attack by a conventional diesel-powered submarine, which can do 19 knots on the surface and 16 when submerged. The QE2 would still be vulnerable to the kind of air-to-surface missile attack that last week sank the destroyer Sheffield, but at least it would be fairly secure against an as sault by Argentina...
...Department of Defense is already committed to buying much of the product refined from the Union Oil output. Thirty percent of Union's shale-oil production will be refined into jet fuel, and 70% will be made into diesel. The Government has agreed to pay $42.50 per bbl. of the product, plus automatic increases that will be tied to inflation, no matter what happens to world crude oil prices. This would channel up to $400 million to Union in price guarantees during the first seven years of the contract, not far from the $550 million it will have spent...
...Sunday, as two helicopters ferried reconnaissance units to the 100-mile-long island, the British had a stroke of luck. Some five miles from South Georgia, the chopper pilots spotted the Argentine submarine Santa Fe moving toward Grytviken. The British fired at the sub, a diesel-powered craft built in 1944 by the U.S., with machine guns and rockets. They scored at least three hits on the vessel, which began leaking oil and giving off smoke. The stricken Santa Fe limped into Grytviken harbor to beach itself. As about 50 Argentine troops poured off the vessel...