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Provoking the outcry was a rumble that started in Bonn fortnight ago when rebellious members of the Bundestag rounded up enough votes to reverse the government's cancellation of a juicy $20 million Soviet pipe order. Chancellor Konrad Adenauer rushed back home from a Lake Como vacation on the eve of the balloting, managed to avoid humiliating defeat only by ordering his Christian Democrats to stay off the floor, thus causing the lack of a quorum. Der Alte's last-ditch maneuver proved his solid support of the U.S., which, unlike most of its allies, attaches great strategic...
There the issue could have simmered indefinitely; but last week the British calmly announced that, since they had never supported NATO's pipe embargo in the first place, the government had no objection if a British firm accepted a Soviet deal for pipe that Bonn had just canceled. That only one British company was technically equipped to turn out small amounts of large-diameter pipe-and had not even received a bid from Moscow-was of small comfort to U.S. and West German officials. Nor were they reassured by the fact that Italy, a major supplier of Soviet pipe...
What really had Washington and Bonn concerned was London's next move. Brit ain, excluded for now from the Common Market and plagued by serious unemployment, was eager for export markets anywhere; if one inch of large-diameter oil pipe was delivered to Russia, the NATO boycott would be broken. West Germany and Italy could no longer be restrained. Neither could France, which has a massive (500,000 tons), and mostly unused, annual capacity for pipe production, but which supports the U.S. completely on the allies' debate over the strategic value of Moscow's Big Inch...
...hurried exodus, leaving Zermatt a ghost town occupied by 120 green-uniformed Swiss army medical corpsmen. By sealed train and helicopter, the army men evacuated local victims, and health inspectors poking through Zermatt's water system discovered the probable cause of it all-a hole in a water pipe into which sewage was seeping...