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...widen. At a summit meeting in Brussels, the ten-nation European Community expressed its dismay at Reagan's June order forbidding U.S. companies, their foreign subsidiaries and even foreign licensees from supplying equipment for the 3,500-mile pipeline that is to carry Soviet natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe. And the Brussels communique, toned down somewhat from a stinging initial draft, did not fully reflect the intensity of the Europeans' belief that the U.S. is waging economic war against the Soviet Union at their expense...
...Soviet Union. Meeting in Brussels last week, the leaders of the ten-nation European Community sternly warned President Reagan of the "adverse consequences" of his move to block or at least delay the planned $10 billion pipeline that is supposed to deliver natural gas 3,500 miles from Siberia to the heart of Western Europe starting...
...there was no single predominant reason. Many Administration officials view Haig's departure as due to a clash of personalities more than to policy quarrels. But bitter disagreements between Haig and other officials over policy toward Israel and the celebrated pipeline that will carry Soviet natural gas from Siberia to Western Europe did bring to a head a long series of tensions and frustrations that had been building since the Reagan Administration took office...
More important, Haig at Versailles undertook a bit of well-intended diplomacy that failed. Reagan earlier had forbidden American companies to supply equipment for the Siberia-Western Europe natural gas pipeline, as a method of putting economic pressure on the Soviets in retaliation for the crackdown in Poland. He had reserved the option of imposing further sanctions if the Poles were not granted some greater measure of freedom. The Europeans were angry, regarding any American effort to block the pipeline as an attempt to wage economic war on the Soviet Union. They opposed economic sanctions both on principle-they...
...Asian portion is no less ambitious, involving the rechanneling of Siberia's mighty Ob River and its major tributary, the Irtysh. The original idea was to carry the water south by building a canal some 1,500 miles long, perhaps by nuclear blasting. But that proposal drew so many objections in the West that Soviet planners are now talking of rerouting the water along old riverbeds revealed by satellite photographs...