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France effectively snubbed Washington in late January by signing a contract with Moscow for a share in the $15 billion Soviet natural gas pipeline that will stretch 3,000 miles from Siberia to Western Europe. Last week a group of French banks extended the Soviets $140 million in credit to help finance the deal. Both West Germany and Italy are also committed to supplying credits and technology for the pipeline. Administration officials believe that the project, which when completed (current target: late 1984) will pump more than 40 billion cubic meters of natural gas to Western Europe, will only increase...
Vashchenko's decision to eat surprised family members, but they were glad that her health was improving. When she leaves the hospital, she may be sent home to Siberia, to a psychiatric hospital for observation and questioning, or possibly to jail. "I don't think that I want to disgrace our friends," she wrote in a letter. "I believe that soon I will stand before the KGB. Then [my fate] will be their business...
...years. France will receive--via a trans-European pipeline--eight million cubic meters of natural gas from the Soviet Union, in addition to the four billion it already buys. By 1990, one third of France's gas and five percent of all the energy it consumes will come from Siberia...
...back the contract signed between GDF and Soyuzgas-export is hardly surprising. Already this fall, several members of the European Economic Community--including France and West Germany--entered into joint venture with the Soviet Union for the construction of a natural gas pipeline that is to run from Siberia to Western Europe. Besides, eight billion cubic meters of gas is the equivalent of five nuclear reactors. Hence the deal with the Soviets will allow Mitterrand to slow the growth of the French nuclear industry, an avowed goal of the president...
...addition, Russia needs the pipeline technology itself. Without it, much or the natural gas in Siberia will be inaccessible to the Soviets themselves, not to mention the West. The S.S.S.R. would then be forced to go energy hunting elsewhere. The Persian Gulf is one hunting ground that comes quickly to mind...