THE ALLIES A PROBLEM OF PIPE TO PUMP ITS BURGEONING OIL AND 
GAS PRODUCTION FROM NEW FIELDS IN THE CAUCASUS AND URALS, RUSSIA 
HAS UNDERTAKEN A 38,000-MILE PIPELINE NETWORK, WITH TWO MAIN LEGS : 
ONE WESTWARD FROM KUIBYSHEV NEAR THE URALS TO POWER THE FACTORIES 
OF RUSSIA'S EUROPEAN SATELLITES, THE OTHER THOUSANDS OF MILES THROUGH SIBERIA 
AND ON TO THE PACIFIC . TROUBLE IS, RUSSIA CANNOT PRODUCE 
ALL OF THE BIG-BORE (UP TO 40 IN.) PIPE ITSELF ; 
SO IT HAS TURNED TO CAPITALIST MANUFACTURERS, MOSTLY IN WEST GERMANY 
AND ITALY, FOR 40 PER CENT OF THE 2,500,000 TONS OF 
PIPE IT NEEDS FOR THE PROJECT . ARGUING THAT THE PIPELINES 
ARE OF VITAL STRATEGIC USE TO RUSSIA, NATO'S TRADE ADVISORY COMMITTEE 
LAST WEEK TRIED TO PUT AN END TO THE PIPE TRADE 
. WEEKS AGO, ITALY, WHICH HAD SENT RUSSIA 180,000 TONS OF 
PIPE, WENT ALONG WITH NATO'S NEW BAN, CANCELED A 60,000-TON SHIPMENT 
. JAPAN CANCELED NEGOTIATIONS FOR 20,000 TONS . BUT A HOWL 
WENT UP IN WEST GERMANY, RUSSIA'S NO . 1 OIL-PIPE SUPPLIER 
(633,000 TONS FROM 1959 THROUGH LAST OCTOBER) . JUST THREE AND 
A HALF MONTHS AGO, THREE GIANT RUHR FIRMS MANNESMANN, PHOENIXRHEINROHR AG, 
AND HOESCH SIGNED A CONTRACT FOR ANOTHER 200,000 TONS . RUHR 
STEELMEN DENOUNCED CHANCELLOR KONRAD ADENAUER AS A NATO STOOGE FOR TRYING 
TO ENFORCE THE NEW RULES . TAKEN ABACK, ADENAUER'S CABINET LAST 
WEEK AGREED TO RECONSIDER, TURNED THE PROBLEM OVER TO A SPECIAL 
SUBCOMMITTEE FOR SPECIAL STUDY . 