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STANDING stiffly behind his desk in Madrid's Pardo Palace, Dictator Francisco Franco last week delivered his annual state-of-the-nation address with all the emotion of a wooden soldier. For 20 minutes, the Caudillo, 78, methodically pumped his right hand up and down for emphasis as he spoke in his lisping, high-pitched voice of trade-union reforms, of Spain's Common Market hopes, of Richard Nixon's visit in October. But of the political crisis that continued to send seismic waves throughout the country Franco said practically nothing. There was an odd, stilted sentence...
...flowing blue robe. Justice William O. Douglas, chairman of the conference, strode through the bar with his miniskirted blonde wife in tow. The place was jammed with students in opentoed sandals, bearded scientists, well-tailored businessmen, lawyers and politicians. A star of the meeting turned out to be Arvid Pardo, a sort of superdiplomat who serves as Malta's delegate to the U.N. and the Maltese Ambassador to Washington and Moscow. Three years ago, Pardo introduced a U.N. resolution calling for an international authority to administer the oceans and ensure that the seabeds would be used for peaceful purposes...
...their say. Some argued that the oceans will be as "dead" as Lake Erie by the end of the century unless remedial action on an international scale is taken to halt pollution. If present trends to use the Mediterranean as the ultimate receptacle of noxious waste continue, Arvid Pardo said, its fishing industry will disappear in a few years. Swedish Ecologist Bengt Lundholm reported that only 14% of Italy's seacoast is now free of pollution. Dr. Jerold M. Lowenstein, a physician specializing in nuclear medicine, warned that radioactive wastes from an ever increasing number of nuclear power plants...
...ecologists was tempered by a rosy view of the oceans' potential. Scientist John P. Craven, lately of M.I.T., predicted that there will be airports floating on the seas by 1980. "and eventually these airports would become cities that would summer off Cape Cod and winter off Florida." Pardo went one step farther: "In future generations, a big percentage of the world's population will live in cities under the seas...
...conference reached no formal decisions, but as it ended, there was an air of optimism that somehow an international agency would be devised to monitor the exploitation of all that underwater wealth. Pardo predicted that the U.N. would start setting up such a regime next year, though he conceded that a binding treaty could not be completed until 1973 at the earliest. Other delegates thought that an independent agency could do the job more efficiently than the bureaucracy-ridden U.N. Lord Ritchie-Calder likened the process to "the opening up of the last frontier. First, adventurers go into virgin-territories...