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A superpower confrontation took place on the high seas last week. Ironically, it showed that U.S.-Soviet relations are not quite as strained as some of the hand-wringing post-mortems over the Russian rejection of new U.S. SALT proposals might suggest. American Coast Guardsmen boarded and seized two Russian...
The incident began when the Coast Guard cutter Decisive ordered the Taras Shevchenko to heave to in waters about 130 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. Commander Alan B. Smith suspected that the Russian ship had been violating the U.S.'s new 200-mile fishing zone. Three Coast Guardsmen...
Late last week U.S. Attorney James Gabriel brought Gupalov into federal court in Boston, where the husky Russian captain and his ship were formally charged with fishing for prohibited species and failing to keep proper records. If found guilty, Gupalov could go to prison for up to one year and...
Whatever the outcome of the actions against the Shevchenko, Washington's message to Moscow was apparently received loud and clear. The news agency Tass announced late last week that the Kremlin has given Soviet fishing captains "instructions on strict observance" of the U.S. 200-mile zone.
A fishing expedition to an unnamed lake, miles from the nearest road, in dubious weather. It sounded unsafe, if not foolhardy. But then, reports Senior Writer Michael Demarest: