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...frigid, unusually slow-moving air mass formed over Alaska and the Yukon, cooled further, and then was plunged suddenly southward through a high-altitude channel of powerful winds. Another National Weather Service meteorologist, Amet Figueroa, traced the violent cold even farther afield. Said he: "It has its origins in Siberia, where it's been lying for the past couple of weeks." The consequences of the Arctic cold sweep were global. The same air mass refrigerating the U.S. helped set records and disrupt life all over Europe. All of the weathermen agreed that the continuing frigidity was extraordinary. Said Case...
...sanction against Moscow, an embargo of U.S. grain, simply because he did not want to hurt American farmers. Nonetheless, they complain, the President expects the allies to ban the export of high technology to the U.S.S.R. and shelve plans for building a 3,000-mile natural-gas pipeline from Siberia to West Germany. "These measures would be much more costly to us than anything the U.S. has done," insists a French official. "If the U.S. were to cut off grain sales, then perhaps it could ask Europe to take these steps...
American companies doubt that the U.S. will receive full backing from its allies. Caterpillar Tractor Co., which is losing an $80 million contract to supply the Soviets with 200 pipelaying machines for their planned natural gas pipeline from Siberia to West Germany, expects a Japanese company to fill that order. Fumes a Caterpillar executive: "Reagan's not denying pipelayers to Moscow, only our pipelayers...
...While giving Cliff Sheehan a pep talk, Adam Dixon was approached by an official and ordered off the track. "It shows how quickly you are forgotten," Dixon said. "It's like being chairman of the Communist party in Russia and suddenly finding yourself in a six-foot cell in Siberia...
Another important issue concerned the proposed natural gas pipeline that will stretch some 3,000 miles from Siberia through East Germany to Western Europe. The West Germans would like to see Honecker approve the pipeline agreement, which was discussed last month by Schmidt and Soviet President Leonid Brezhnev. Since West Berlin will receive natural gas under the terms of the agreement,the West Germans hope that Honecker's approval of the plan may augur well for future discussion of matters involving West Berlin-a subject that East Germany has often regarded as verboten...