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...nothing but an attempt to engage in wishful thinking." But Western experts contend that the fire at the Urengoi station, the largest of 41 planned compressor units, will delay the project perhaps six months. "We believe that the pipeline has been completed in the sense that all the pipe is welded together," said a Washington official. "But to blow gas through the pipeline, you need compressor stations, and only one or two of the 41 stations have been built...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: East-West: Incident at Urengoi | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

...Nimeiri has remained in power since then, staging three referendums that have overwhelmingly returned him to office. Residents of the southern part of the country, however, cite numerous grievances. They complain, for example, that when the Chevron Oil Co. discovered oil in the south, the government made plans to pipe it out of the territory rather than build a refinery on the spot, which would have generated jobs in the economically depressed region. In addition, some southerners fear that the Jonglei Canal, a huge project to divert water northward from the White Nile, will turn parts of the south into...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sudan: Hearts, Minds and Helicopters | 1/23/1984 | See Source »

After that, no amount of Harvard pressure could do the trick. Tim Smith hit the post twice, once catching the inside of the far pipe. Twice Gordon robbed center Tim McMahon, who was playing his first varsity game since last year's Beanpot consolation contest...

Author: By Jim Silver, | Title: Crimson Takes Its Best Shot: B.C., 3-1 | 1/4/1984 | See Source »

...redefined slowly the notion of a House as an administrative unit rather than an educational one," Heimert says. With educational duties lessened, Masters began to step into the role of a caretaker of the House. If there's a pipe burst in C entry, the master is the first one they call," says Dowling...

Author: By Mary Humes, | Title: There's No Place Like Home | 1/4/1984 | See Source »

...barbed-wire entanglements. Guards opened fire, but it was too late." A week later, Marine Commandant General Paul X. Kelley asserted that the truck slammed through the barbed wire at 60 m.p.h., sped past two armed sentries, burst through an iron gate and jumped over an 18-in. pipe before exploding...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Beirut: Serious Errors in Judgment | 1/2/1984 | See Source »

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