Word: oceaneering
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instance, it is anticipated that the first squadron of B-1s, an advanced intercontinental bomber, could be flown. At about the same time, we could have an entirely new sub marine missile system, the ULMS (undersea long-range missile system), operating in millions of square miles of ocean area, vastly complicating an enemy's anti-submarine problem and able to reach the Soviet Union from such protected areas as, say, the Mississippi River. True, all this can happen only if Congress keeps providing the necessary funds. But here, too, balance would appear to contribute to continued credibility...
...Tories maintained that if Britain wanted to retain its South African naval facilities as a counterweight to the growing Soviet presence in the Indian Ocean, a resumption of arms sales was necessary. But the government failed to present its case convincingly to the Commonwealth, and a storm boiled up. Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia lodged strong protests, and Tanzania's President Julius Nyerere threatened to withdraw from the Commonwealth. By the time the issue came before the House, it was clear that the government had been blown off course. The opposition so rattled Sir Alec Douglas-Home that...
...abandoned last year 600 miles from Barbados) that the ancient Egyptians, who sailed such papyrus craft, could have discovered America 40 centuries ago, Heyerdahl proudly noted that his vessel had survived its journey intact. Ra II will eventually be installed in an Oslo museum alongside an earlier ocean-going ship of Heyerdahl design: the balsa raft Kon-Tiki, which made the journey from Peru to Polynesia...
...desolate and inaccessible as the moon. Now the wastes of Antarctica have been surveyed and found replete with coal; modern cities are sprouting in Siberia. Roads penetrate Africa's rain forests, leading to lodes of tin, bauxite and uranium. Arabian deserts are crisscrossed with oil pipelines; even the ocean depths may soon be farmed and mined...
Buoyant Gesture. One of the main subjects of conversation was a similar proposal by President Nixon. On May 23, he called for an international treaty that would renounce all national claims to ocean resources below a depth of 200 meters (218.8 yards). This marine wealth, he said, should be treated as "the common heritage of mankind." He proposed that individual nations be named by an international agency to act as trustees of the riches. Royalties from exploitation of the oceans' resources should be paid to the international agency, which in turn could use the income for economic assistance...