Word: extends
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Ostensibly to protect its deep-sea fishery from the depredations of foreign commercial fleets, Ecuador claims that its territorial waters extend 200 miles offshore-something of a stretch beyond the usual twelve-mile limit. Yanqni tuna fishermen have "intruded" regularly over the years, sometimes paying the Ecuadoreans a license fee, sometimes not. Without a license, the American boats run the risk of seizure by the Ecuadorean navy. (More than half of Ecuador's 21 ships, as it happens, were supplied by the U.S.) Lately the Ecuadoreans have been getting more aggressive: since Jan. 11 they have seized...
Senator John Stennis, chairman of the Armed Services Committee, however, expressed doubts that the U.S. could meet the threat in Cambodia without violating the Cooper-Church amendments. He said that if conditions take a turn for the worse in Cambodia it may be necessary for the Congress to extend the limits of the amendment...
...limited to the purposes for which they were originally intended; indeed, that they are sometimes better suited for something else entirely. This is particularly true of cable TV. So true, in fact, that it may well be that in the case of cable TV, network television, in trying to extend its parameters to their fullest, has created the very element which will destroy...
Volpin was sentenced to remain in jail until the end of the grand jury term. The jury is scheduled to adjourn on March 31, but the Justice Depart-ment will probably extend the term until December...
...past several months the CRIMSON, along with many other papers in the Boston area, has been running advertisements for "abortion counseling services, referral services, scheduling services. . . ." I would like to extend a word of caution to anyone considering using such a service...