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...coast. The treaty provides for extending that limit up to 350 nautical miles if a country can prove that its continental shelf extends from the coastline beyond the current limit. That explains the rush by Russia, Denmark and Canada to try to use the murky form of the underwater Lomonosov Ridge to expand the territory they control. The ridge, a largely uncharted geological formation named for an 18th century Russian polymath born near the northern coastal city of Arkhangel'sk, runs under the Pole from north of Canada's Ellesmere Island and Denmark's Greenland to the New Siberian Islands...
...Russians claimed a great scientific discovery late last month. An expedition of 50 scientists that spent 45 days aboard the Rossia nuclear ice-breaker found that an underwater ridge (the Lomonosov ridge) directly links Russia's Arctic coast to the North Pole. This, they insist, surely guarantees Russia's rights over a vast Polar territory that also happens to contain some 10 billion tons of oil and natural gas deposits...
Next semester 350 students at Tufts College in Medford, Mass., along with counterparts at Moscow M.V. Lomonosov State University, will start an unprecedented joint course in the history of the nuclear arms race between the two nations. The program will include four satellite-relayed televised sessions, during which Soviet and American students will carry on live, transcontinental discussions of critical events such as the Cuban missile crisis. Says Tufts President Jean Mayer, who initiated the idea in a letter to Gorbachev last February: "The time was right...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6-6:30 p.m.). The Soviet Union's Lomonosov, the best-equipped and largest oceanographic vessel in the world, pipes aboard the cameras of CBS for a permitted look around. Also, the program shows the work of patrol planes keeping watch on Russian trawlers in the North Atlantic...
During the opening sessions the well-financed Russians had comparatively little to say. Most striking papers came from Columbia University's Lament Geological Observatory, whose single seagoing ship, the battered schooner Vema, is a midget compared to the Lomonosov and more than once has been embarrassed in out-of-the-way ports for lack of money to buy supplies. Lament Men Maurice Ewing and Bruce Heezen, both members of an oceanographic subspecies whose real interest is the bottom, told how the Vema's probing-on-a-shoestring may have solved the ancient mystery of how the earth...