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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such distinctions and declared that they owned the waters extending for various distances from their coasts. Today, while many countries still abide by the archaic three-mile limit, most do not. Russia, for instance, claims twelve miles; Iceland, 50 miles; South Africa, 100 miles; and others, mainly in Latin America, 200 miles...
...three-mile limit, based on the range of a land cannon, emerged in the 18th century. In World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt mandated a 200-mile "neutrality zone" to safeguard the western flank of Latin America, and that seems to have inspired many of the 200-mile claims being made today. These and other claims generally reflect defense considerations or the extent of important coastal fisheries...
...characteristically Peronist performance. Compromise, giving a little here to get a little there, a dramatic personal appearance-these typified the style of Juan Perón. Judging by her first few days, the old leader had passed his ability on to the former cabaret dancer who is now Latin America's first female head of state...
...ironic side-her doctoral research at the University of Michigan paved the way for subsequent studies revealing that most American women fear success. The daughter of Greek immigrants, raised in Boston's mixed ethnic section of Roxbury, Horner attended Boston Girls' Latin School and Bryn Mawr College. One of her tasks is presiding over the integration of Radcliffe and Harvard under one university umbrella on a trial basis. Her major concern: helping women and minority groups achieve equal access to education and jobs...
Joseph Blatchford, 40, set up ACCION, a privately financed, youth volunteer group in Latin America in 1960-before John Kennedy started the Peace Corps. Named to run the Peace Corps for the Nixon Administration, he resigned in discouragement in 1972 because nobody was listening to his ideas (for example, giving college students academic credit and living expenses for a year of domestic volunteer work). Blatchford, an unsuccessful California congressional candidate in 1968, is sidelined this year by a lack of campaign funds, but he is helping Republican Houston Flournoy campaign for Governor. "Right now," says Blatchford, "the challenge...