Word: canada
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egypt-Syria). Britain, whose North Sea fishing trawlers are a major industry, decided to abandon the three-mile limit in favor of a maximum of six, hoping thereby to avoid the threat of twelve, which would seriously jeopardize its fishing close to the coasts of Iceland, Norway and Greenland. Canada proposed a six-mile limit for national sovereignty, plus another six miles of exclusive fishing (a notion that horrified Britain). The Soviet Union, which has little at stake for itself in the issue, made propaganda hay by championing the smaller nations' twelve-mile proposals...
Chaos, Contd. Britain backed the compromise, but Canada did not. Last week, in full plenary session, Canada's proposal of a twelve-mile exclusive fishing zone was defeated. A Russian twelve-mile territorial sea proposal mustered only 21 ayes to 47 nays. The closest to come to victory, with 45 votes for and 33 against, was the U.S. proposal, but it still fell seven votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority. In disgust the meeting gave...
...having "a kind of field day" over Russia's unilateral suspension of nuclear tests, especially in newly independent countries that "haven't had the opportunity to become mature in these matters." From British Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell-"Stop the nuclear tests and start the talks"-to Canada's Tory Prime Minister John Diefenbaker-"My hope is that the free world will discontinue the tests"-many maturer folk were flipflopping too. But Gromyko's charge against SAC was too wild for credibility...
...specific procedure is that whenever unidentified and unidentifiable shapes show up on U.S. radar, e.g., the $500 million DEW line across Northern Canada and Alaska, or the ship-based radar networks in mid-Atlantic and mid-Pacific, a SAC alert is declared. In his underground command post at Offutt Air Force Base near Omaha, General Power or a deputy orders one of scores of Emergency War Plans-E.W.P.s-designed to meet every calculated contingency to be put into immediate operation. SAC flashes its orders-"PLAN BLANK"-to any or all of some 70 SAC bases worldwide. At the bases...
EXPORT-HUNGRY CANADA, hoping to ease wheat glut and dependence on U.S. trade, will make hard sales pitch to Red China. Canada recently closed first big wheat deal (1,700,000 million bu.) with Red China since Korean war, now wants to step up sales of lumber and chemicals, boost exports to China above the $55 million yearly level attained during pre-Communist days...