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<199809082116.OAA01612@m1.sprynet.com> Date: Tue, 8 Sep 1998
14:21:12 -0700 Reply-To: Eurasia Research Center
<eurasia2@SPRYNET.COM> From: Eurasia Research Center
<eurasia2@SPRYNET.COM> Subject: NPR - Turkmenistan's Energy
Controversy  Turkmenistan Energy Reserve Controversy  By Michael
Sullivan, Ashkhabad, and Bob Edwards, Washington DC, NPR
Transcript #98090811-210, 8 September 1998   NPR's Michael
Sullivan reports that last December a smal stretch of pipeline
opened up between Turkmenistan and Iran, giving the former
Soviet republic a new way to export its huge reserves of natural
gas. The pipeline is one of a series of Iranian moves to
increase influence in the republics of Central Asia. It has
upset both the United States and Russia.   BOB EDWARDS, HOST:
The Central Asian republic of Turkmenistan gained its
independence when the Soviet Union broke apart. It also gained
control over the enormous gas and oil reserves that Moscow used
to exploit.  With only four