Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that in part, but the accord, by apparently ending India's nonalignment, also promises important benefits for the Soviet Union. It gives the Russians influence and status on the Indian subcontinent, perhaps including ports of call and bunkering facilities for the Soviet Union's growing Indian Ocean fleet. Most important, the treaty was a countermeasure to the stunning U.S. move toward Peking. In the long perspective, most observers would bet on China rather than on India as a major military and industrial power of the future. Nevertheless, in aligning with India, Asia's second most populous nation...
...larger fish. Next month France, Britain, West Germany, Belgium and Holland will take up the problem at The Hague at a preparatory meeting for a United Nations Conference on the Human Environment to be held in Stockholm next year. Among proposed controls: a registry of elements discharged into oceans and global monitoring of ocean pollution. As the U.S. sees it, rather than trying to police polluters, which would take a special U.N. navy to accomplish, it would be better to create uniform standards among maritime nations; the nations would then be expected to enforce the standards themselves. An Administration-approved...
...unlikely to go along. Said a Peruvian Foreign Ministry official of the U.S. proposal: "What they really want is to split the 200-mile area: twelve miles for us and 188 miles for them! Should we be weak and stupid enough to give in, there would follow an ocean grab by the big powers...
...great desert. "This is absolutely mind-boggling," he said. The scenery was apparently even more mind-boggling after the spacecraft descended to a lower orbit of only ten by 67 miles. Crossing over the towering Apennines, Scott said: "Why, it's just unreal ... the mountains jut out of the 'ocean.' They appear smooth and rounded. There aren't any jagged peaks that...
Glorious Spontaneity. Between ocean and mountain stretches the broad, featureless plain whose uninspired development Banham calls "Anywheresville/ Nowheresville." But soon freeways stamped man's imprint on this heartland too. Each great road had the potential to become "a work of art, both as a pattern on the map, as a monument against the sky, and as a kinetic experience." Of course, the roads bred more cars, and cars bred what Banham calls "a coherent state of mind." One symptom: the emphasis on driving everywhere, a "willing acquiescence in an incredibly demanding man/machine system." Another: the customized...