Word: limits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...three conflicts broke out when Iceland, which depends on fishing for 80% of its exports, unilaterally decided to extend its territorial fishing limit. Last July the Reykjavik government declared that no other nation, without prior agreement, could fish within 200 miles of Icelandic territory; the previous limit, established in 1972, had been 50 miles. Icelandic authorities claimed that new scientific studies showed a drastic decline in young cod, those that have not yet reached breeding age. If these underage fish continued to be harvested before reproducing, the total cod catch would decline ruinously within a few years...
Potent Weapon. Iceland was outraged by what it regarded as continuing British aggression, and last week took its case to the U.N. Security Council. Icelandic Ambassador Ingvi Ingvarsson noted that both West Germany and Belgium had already agreed to limit their fishing and he demanded that Britain do the same. British Ambassador Ivor Richard blandly suggested further discussions between the two governments...
...freewheeling days of J. Edgar Hoover are over. Now Congress and the Executive branch must find ways to limit the FBI's activities and prevent future abuses of its vast powers. Last week several experts gave their recommendations to Democrat Frank Church's Senate Intelligence Committee. The proposals fell into four categories...
...LIMITED TENURE. The committee probably will adopt the recommendation of several witnesses that Congress set a limit to an FBI director's term. Recalling Hoover's 48-year tenure, Ruckelshaus urged that a director be restricted to eight or nine years. Clark recommended four years, starting at the mid-point of a presidential term to ease the danger of Presidents and directors becoming too cozy. In fact, the Senate voted last spring to limit the director's term to ten years. A bill setting a 15-year limit is now before the House Judiciary Committee, which will...
...Limit population growth. The poor countries must recognize that they are-as U.S. Economist Rawle Farley puts it-in an "anxious race between demography and development." In nearly all the developing nations, the consumption demands of increased population are undermining even the best strategies for economic development. Egypt's Aswan High Dam, for instance, has added 25% to that country's arable land; yet, between 1955 when plans for the dam were conceived and 1970 when the project was completed, the population of the country swelled a staggering 50%, to more than 30 million...