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There is even a farther-out category called undiscovered potential resources, meaning areas where geological clues would indicate the possibility of reserves but where exploration has been nonexistent or too scanty even for guesstimates. Parts of Siberia and China are leading examples...
...much of a river for irrigation; water from the Snowy River, which empties into the Tasman Sea, is being rerouted to flow through the Snowy Mountains into farmland watering systems. The Soviets are working on a similar project involving the Ob and the Yenisei, which flow north out of Siberia to the Kara Sea. By diverting part of these waters southward, the Soviets will feed them into an irrigation system that could keep marginal wheatlands productive...
...deserts of the Middle East, it is a doleful sight: mile after mile of flaring wellhead fires burning off natural gas, a fuel that has become painfully scarce in many parts of the U.S. Equally bounteous reserves of gas exist in many other parts of the world, from Soviet Siberia to the marshy fields of Holland-and several of the nations with the biggest reserves must export gas if they are to tap the potential wealth, because their populations are too small to use all they have (see chart). Yet apart from a trickle of imports flowing in by pipeline...
...Soviet Union, which is believed to have the world's largest deposits of gas, could become a major source of U.S. imports. The Russians have been pushing hard in recent years to exploit their vast gas reserves in Siberia, including the northern Tyumen Oblast, near the Ob Gulf, and the Urengoy field, reportedly the world's largest. Their aim: to make the Soviet Union a major exporter by 1980 (at present, so few of the reserves have been tapped that the Soviets themselves import gas from Iran). The only deal involving Americans, however, is a tentative agreement between...
...dissidents, however idealistic their motivation. Says a high-ranking Western diplomat in Moscow: "On the one hand, dissidents are undoubtedly helped by Washington's statements. Do they make Moscow more lenient? No, but they make it more difficult for the Soviets to bash Sakharov or send everyone to Siberia." On the other hand, it is difficult to link foreign policy and morality, because the Russians are proud, sensitive, somewhat paranoid and cannot be pushed too far. The diplomat continues: "Is it not immoral to jettison disarmament?" This is not likely to happen. Carter seems determined not to let human...