Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...would pull back partially from the Suez Canal, he promised, Egypt would begin to repair the waterway to accommodate international traffic once more. The Russians would certainly like such a move; with the canal opened again, it would be easier to supply their growing naval force in the Indian Ocean. But Sadat was also making a studied attempt to demonstrate his new administration's sense of responsibility as a member of the world community. In some key respects, Sadat's Suez Canal offer is vague. He did not indicate, for instance, whether Egypt would allow Israeli vessels...
What finally emerged was a plan that may merely delay a fateful showdown. For the next several months, an eight-member panel will study the recent increase in Soviet naval activity in the Indian Ocean, which Britain's Prime Minister Edward Heath claims has made the sale of frigates and other military equipment to the Pretoria regime a strategic necessity...
...part, Heath seemed to have had a bellyful of criticism. After his marathon session with other P.M.s, the British Prime Minister is reported to have remarked acidly: "I got the impression some of them didn't know where the Indian Ocean...
Conservationists never saw the canal as anything but a huge environmental blunder (TIME, April 13). By connecting the Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico, the 9-ft.-deep waterway would have saved shippers a 600-mile journey around Florida. But, as Nixon's Council on Environmental Quality noted, its construction would have inundated the Oklawaha River basin, a unique and beautiful area abounding in wildlife. Critics also charged that the canal would pollute nearby ground-water supplies and they insisted that the locks would be too small to permit profitable traffic loads...
...what of the nonbiodegradable plastic cups that you so casually consume and throw away, polluting your environment, and the environment of those around you? Is it relevant to ask that chemicals be thrown into rivers, even the Charles, that search for the purity of the ocean, seeking to escape the contamination of the earth, just so you can sloppily and wastefully place your wrapped sandwiches and capped cokes in bags. And what do you do with these brand new bags? Do you at least use them for garbage, thus preventing its spread? No. you don't. You just crumple them...