Word: limiteds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Britain's House of Commons has already ratified. Iceland followed last week. In Italy, seeing that an overwhelming majority is for ratification, Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti agreed to limit debate in the Chamber of Deputies, thereby presumably assuring ratification before Christmas. That left Germany and France as the crucial tests...
...record check was in payment of a fine levied against Onassis after Peru caught five of his whaleships hunting within the 200-mile offshore limit that Peru claims to control. But in Paris Onassis was just about as pleased as the Peruvian government. He had come out of his troublesome tilt with Peru not only unscathed but possibly money ahead...
...hurried to Lima to "fix things up"; at the same time Onassis took out a $15 million anti-confiscation insurance policy through Lloyd's of London. A mysterious silence followed-until Onassis' Hamburg agent leaked the fact that the ships were whaling unmolested "between the 200-mile limit and the coast...
...underwriters may appeal to higher courts in Peru, possibly contesting Peru's 200-mile limit. But the laws and customs applying to sea limits are tangled and contradictory.* Three major international conferences are scheduled within the next two years to try to bring agreement on how much ocean a nation can claim. Meanwhile, Peru's Revenue Collector has happily entered his $3,000,000 windfall as "Unforeseen Income...
...Territorial waters two or three decades ago were almost universally recognized as ending three nautical miles out, based on a doctrine, centuries old, that such was the maximum distance a shore-based cannon shot would carry and therefore the greatest enforceable limit. Now each nation makes its own rule...