VOL. XLI

No. 35

31-August-1998

FSU

Unocal Suspends CentGas Operations For Afghan Gas Pipeline

Citing the "sharply deteriorating political conditions in the region,"US-based Unocal announced on 24 August that it was suspending its plans to construct a1,464-km. natural gas pipeline across Afghanistan. The announcement followed in the wakeof weeks of fighting between the Taliban, which now controls some three-quarters ofAfghanistan, and other factions in the north of the country, and the US...