Show V Soviets May Pass U.S. In Natural Gas The Soviet Union will surpass the United States in the as the world's producer of natural according to a study by the The agency said the Soviet Union has the world's greatest proven reserves and has three times the amount of coal as the U.S. CIA Economist John Tidd said the natural gas boom in Russia will not be enough to offset the negative effects of declining Soviet petro- leum Tidd said the new natural gas reserves are all in Western The weather there is hard on both workers and and there are no railroad lines or In order to transmit the he Soviets will have to build a pipeline-nearly four times longer than the Alaskan t 1 |