Word: siberians
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...centerpiece of the U.S.-European dispute is an ambitious 3,000-mile, $10 billion pipeline through which the Soviet Union hopes to deliver up to 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas annually from its Siberian tundra, over the Urals, across the wheatfields of the Ukraine and through Czechoslovakia, all the way to the homes and factories of Western Europe. The line was scheduled to begin operating as early...
...Islands tussle, the "Iron Lady" has used newly acquired stature to voice the displeasure of the Allies over the way Reagan has dealt with Europe. What upsets the Europeans most is the President's blunt anti-Soviet policies, and in particular, the recent imposition of sanctions on the trans-Siberian pipeline. What European heads-of-state have forcefully argued is this: Reagan's top priority in Europe may be saber-rattling, but the Allies' chief concern is running their respective governments and repairing battered economies. They add that if Reagan wants a free hand in trying to revive...
...President followed his speech with a tightening of the sanctions that were imposed on the U.S.S.R. after martial law was declared in Poland. To an earlier prohibition against U.S. companies making equipment for a pipeline that is to carry Siberian natural gas to Western Europe, Reagan added an order that the companies cannot permit foreign subsidiaries or licensees to do so either. U.S. officials estimated that the new ban, which is certain to rile European allies participating in the project, will delay completion of the pipeline by one to three years. Said one aide: "This action is very consistent with...
...support for NATO's plan to modernize its nuclear forces. His enthusiasm has pleased the Reagan Administration, which initially had been wary of the Socialist President. West German Chancellor Schmidt finds himself more sympathetic to the Reagan Administration now that it has suspended its efforts to block the Siberian natural gas pipeline and begun to pursue arms control negotiations. Italian President Pertini, whose country is constructing NATO's first cruise missile base, has no substantial problems to raise with Reagan and is eager to repay the warm welcome he received in Washington last March...
...least controversial of last week's promotions was the elevation of Central Committee Secretary Vladimir Dolgikh, 57, to alternate, or nonvoting, membership in the Politburo. A Siberian by birth, he has run Soviet heavy industry for the past six years. Considered a mere stripling by the ruling gerontocracy, Dolgikh will be a strong candidate for high office when the next generation of leaders emerges...