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By last week the government had taken over some 50 private vessels under a legal procedure known as the Queen's Order in Council. These ships included everything from freighters and tugboats to four deep-sea fishing trawlers, which the navy planned to use as minesweepers in the vicinity...
Moscow, which has been more of a taunting spectator than a participant in the Falklands dispute, stands to gain the most from the North-South fighting, even if the government in Argentina does not become more accommodating to the Soviets. Both Haig and British Foreign Secretary Francis Pym have complained...
Navassa. Both the U.S. and Haiti claim this two-mile-long, uninhabited, guano-covered Caribbean rock. The quarrel goes back to an 1856 congressional act allowing U.S. citizens to claim certain islands in order to mine sea bird droppings, which are used as fertilizer. Negotiations to solve the dispute broke...
Until President Reagan's election, the U.S. seemed prepared to go along with the wishes of developing countries that sought to draw up rules governing use of the 70% of the earth's surface covered by water. But then, early last year, just as the delegates were putting...
The 1967 autobiography of Kathryn Crosby was entitled Bing and Other Things (sample chapters: "How to Marry Bing"; "How to Have a Baby-or Three"). Well, Bing is gone, and soon a lot of the "other things" will be too, says Kathryn, 48. Late this month at Butterfield's...