Word: russian
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...superpower confrontation took place on the high seas last week. Ironically, it showed that U.S.-Soviet relations are not quite as strained as some of the hand-wringing post-mortems over the Russian rejection of new U.S. SALT proposals might suggest. American Coast Guardsmen boarded and seized two Russian fishing vessels-an encounter that gave both countries plenty of opportunity for belligerent muscle flexing. Neither jumped at the opportunity...
...incident began when the Coast Guard cutter Decisive ordered the Taras Shevchenko to heave to in waters about 130 miles southeast of Nantucket Island, Mass. Commander Alan B. Smith suspected that the Russian ship had been violating the U.S.'s new 200-mile fishing zone. Three Coast Guardsmen and two agents of the National Marine Fisheries Service scampered up the trawler's rope ladder and split into two teams. One hurried below to check the ship's cleaning and packing facilities and its refrigerated hold; the other team headed for the skipper's cabin to inspect...
...Shevchenko's skipper, Alexsandr Gupalov, was handed a card advising him in Russian of his right to remain silent and to legal counsel. Ten hours later, after the Coast Guard's request to seize the trawler had been approved by President Jimmy Carter, the boarding party informed Gupalov that his ship was now under U.S. command. As the Stars and Stripes were run up its mast, the trawler started toward Boston harbor. Two days later the cutter Reliance brought in the Snechkus and its cargo of allegedly illegal herring. At week's end the Shevchenko was still...
Adequate Warning. One reason for low-keyed Soviet reaction may have been the Kremlin's recognition that its trawlers had indeed been poaching. Since March 1, when the U.S. extended its offshore fisheries jurisdiction from twelve to 200 miles, Russian trawlers have been cited for 53 violations. Three Soviet incidents were considered so serious that the Coast Guard recommended seizing the ships. Permission, however, was denied by the President, following State Department advice...
...period when the Coast Guard wanted to strike. It would have been diplomatically unwise to risk embarrassing the Kremlin at the very moment when Vance was trying to revive the long-stalled SALT negotiations. The U.S., however, did warn the Soviet embassy in Washington that "future violations [by Russian vessels] would make their ships subject to seizure...