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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (29300)	3/6/1999 8:39:00 PM
From: Captain Jack	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 31646

Cheeky--- a couple headlines--- Coca-Cola To Stockpile Supplies In Preparation For Y2K Bug Peter Jennings New York 0:15 5 Y2K Bug Imposes Huge Burden On Some Small Businesses James Walker Colby, KS 2:00 and 30 days to helo out and change some chips... concern--- no panic WASHINGTON, March 7 (Itar-Tass) - A CIA analyst on Friday expressed concern over "severe shortages" of energy if Russia's gas pipeline stops operating because of the Year 2000 computer glitch. Lawrence Gershwin, an intelligence officer from the Central Intelligence Agency, made a warning at hearings of the U.S. Senate special committee on the year 2000 technology problem. According to CIA data, the countries of the region could survive a Gazprom shutdown for about 30 days. "The storage capacity and drawdown capability of Eastern Europe and other states of the former Soviet Union suggests that those countries could experience severe shortages, should Gazprom shut down," Gershwin said. He suggested that in case of the millennium bug, Gazprom could operate its equipment manually, use its reserves or switch to backup pipe segments, admitting however, that "it is unclear whether these measures are sufficient to deal with the scale of problems that could occur due to Y2K failures." Gershwin outlined several of Gazprom's potential weak points, including outdated computers, supervisory control and data acquisition systems, satellite ground stations used to transfer information from regions to the centre, as well as the remoteness of equipment stations controlling pipeline valves, some of which are only accessible by helicopter.