Word: oceaneering
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From the balmy streets of the Mozambique capital of Lourenço Marques on the Indian Ocean to the jungles of Guinea-Bissau on the Atlantic to the porticoed halls of Lisbon's presidential palace, the news announced last week by Portuguese President Antonio de Spinola was for the most part greeted with shouts and demonstrations...
...ferried the five hapless boaters to Kennedy's sloop Curragh, where Ted, Sister-in-Law Ethel Kennedy and several of his nephews and nieces greeted them with hot soup and warm clothes. Said an impressed David Lamkin, "Well, Mr. Kennedy, how often do you rescue people from the ocean?" Replied Ted, "Not very often." Later in the day Randi and Carol went to the Kennedy compound to return the clothes, but Ted and Ethel had flown off to an Andy Williams concert. "I'll remember this for the rest of my life. He's a good-looking...
...sidestep is pollution. The conference should settle a basic jurisdictional point: whether a coastal nation with strong laws to protect its marine environment-most notably Canada-has a right to bar polluting vessels from its waters. But oil tankers and other ships account for only 10% of the ocean's contaminants. The other 90% of the pollutants come from the land, and that, the conferees decided, is out of their territory...
What will the great sea-law debate finally produce-if not in Caracas, then in Vienna next year? One observer, Ann L. Hollick, executive director of Johns Hopkins University's ocean-policy project, sees three unpromising possibilities...
Working in a joint program called NORPAX (for North Pacific Experiment), Russian and American scientists are making new discoveries about ocean currents. Among their findings: the periodic invasion of a warm southerly water flow off South America called El Niño, which recently had all but wiped out Peru's valuable anchovy harvest, is apparently linked to the great north equatorial countercurrent that sweeps from the Philippines to Central America. British and American scientists have been taking part in a similar study in the Atlantic, concentrating on the mysteries of undersea eddies, or storms. Meanwhile, oceanographers aboard...