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talion/Pagjf gust 25,' international Battalion/Page 13 August 25, 1982 ise ittorney l iramediaifl ompany defies Reagan o load parts for Soviets Glad you’re back Ag’st % ■ssel’s Supreme Coi ;aid it would to rule on e appeal, r, did notr^l r of an ap concludes. United Press International LE HAVRE, France — The merican-owned firm Dresser fance # Tuesday bowed to French pressure in the show- own over the Soviet natural gas pipeline and resumed produc- :ion of its giant compressors, un- on spokesmen said. Dresser also agreed to load hree 60-ton compressers onto a oviet-bound freighter, the pokesmen said. It was the first move by an ' American firm defying Presi- ith to curtlB ; j ent R ea g a n’s embargo on parts hipments by U.S. firms and was loved a [their subsidiaries for construc- ion of the mammoth Soviet lipeline to Western Europe, fhe sanctions were imposed to aid Lyba > Estes Pai a his own ect, loved vet mistreatt is client was n : here was noi ay abusive is ire said. “[ g eliminatedt irotest martial law in Poland, g faith in i ■nse. e attorney l no idea fe in such serioi d has pnei® e it has a cold IS al during the th Seat to! y bad,” he said lew with theSi smetimesthea separated Am Germans aot and wasatrts :ould crawl ot step across Leftist unions had scheduled a rally for Tuesday in front of the Dresser plant in Le Havre, where a Soviet freighter is wait ing to load the three 60-ton com pressers built by the Dallas- based firm under a $16 million contract. “A management representa tive,” one labor union spokes man said, “informed us this morning that work on the com pressors was being resumed.” The union spokesmen said the three compressors already have been moved out of the Dresser plant to storage in Le Havre harbor. They will be loaded shortly into the Soviet freighter Borodin, bound for Riga on the Baltic Sea. Dresser France management refused immediate comment, but was expected to publish a statement later in the day. In Washington, Dresser asked a U.S. district court to rule on which country’s law it has to comply with and to bar the Reagan administration from punishing the firm if it bows to the French order based on a 1938 law. “We’re between a rock and a hard place,” said Edward R. Lu- ter, a senior vice president of Dresser Industries Inc. President Reagan believes the pipeline would make western Europe too dependent on the Soviet Union for its energy needs and would reward the Soviets with needed hard cur rency at a time when Poland is suffering under Soviet-backed martial law. Dresser France, a wholly own ed subsidiary of Dresser Indus tries of Dallas, was ordered by the government of President Francois Mitterrand to deliver three compressors that were built before Reagan imposed sanctions against the Soviet pipeline June 18. The sanctions, opposed by France, Britain, West Germany and Italy, were imposed to pro test the imposition of martial law in Poland. Dresser France also was ordered to build another 18 of the compressors as stipulated by its $16 milllion contract with the Soviets. The compressors are needed to keep propelling along natural gas at identical speed along the $15 billion, 3,600-mile trans- Siberian pipeline. Get on board The “I” Train* ^ THE IISTERURBAJtf Thatcher reminisces on war United Press International LONDON — Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher remembers ritain’s Falkland Islands war against Argentina as a time of loneliness, tears, and constant refueling with bacon and eggs. “Some of the times were terri ble,” said Thatcher in a maga- iine interview released Monday. Asked if she had ever wept during the 10-week war with Argentina, in which more than 200 British soldiers died, she said, “Oh yes, you can’t help it. They just come. But you pull yourself together very quickly. You have to.” 'Thatcher, who made the comments to the weekly British magazine, Woman’s Own, re turned to No. 10 Downing Street late Monday following surgery to remove varicose veins at a private London clinic. Her physicians said it was a minor operation and there were no complications. It was her first health problem as prime minister. Employees of Britain’s state- run hospitals, who have been striking periodically for higher pay, criticized the prime minis ter’s decision to seek private care. With tens of thousands of Bri tons on waiting lists for elective surgery under socialized mede- cine, National Health Service officials said citizens hoping for such treatment in state hospitals have little prospect for several years. Women’s Own said Thatcher came close to tears several times as she spoke of the loss of life in the Falklands war, which ended in June. The interview was con ducted earlier this month. “There’s no one else to look to except your own few who are intimately with you,” she said. “There are not many people you Female cosmonaut lauded United Press International MOSCOW — Cosmonaut wetlana Savitskaya and her four out — and there' M i e colleagues carried lost times, i nedical tests and other experi- alf-mile awai nen ts Tuesday in the orbiting nches, a soli $ a ly U t space station, the official at night bea Pass news agency said. —_ — ■ Back on Earth, telegrams of ic iiiicmcui ;6ngratulations arrived for the >” WagnCT sflvorld’s second woman space raveler from Soviet worker and shelling. Tsi%tudent organizations, as well as aells coming ■foreign groups and individuals, apart, least bitter al g for his ys he’s receiving il, ly keeps retd And, I'mgtti irs, you kno* ont Pass said. One foreign telegram praised Savitskaya for showing “how far a woman can go in a country in which complete equality between people has been ensured and every condi tion provided for them to realize their potential.” She is the only woman space traveler since Soviet cosmonaut Valeptina Tereshkova in 1963. Savitskaya flew to the Salyut 7 space station with crewmates Leonid Popov and Alexander Serebrov. Cosmonauts Valentin Lebedev and Anatoly Berezovoy have been on board the station since May 13. Tass said the visitors are car rying out atmospheric research as well as medical experiments concentrating on the cardiovas cular system. ! The Resale Gallery^ Furniture | fi New and Used at affordable prices f I 2795 S. 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