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...side there are the 120 developing countries, ranging in size from China (pop. 800 million) to the South Pacific island state of Nauru (pop. 6,500). They see Caracas as a grand divvying up of the oceans' wealth: a "unique opportunity," as C.R. Pinto of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) puts it, "to augment their meager national resources with none of the unpleasant connotations of 'economic aid.' " They argue that the law Grotius wrote in a maritime era gives an unfair advantage to developed nations in a technological era. Continuation of the status quo, Delegate Makhold Lerotholi...
...prodigious as her legendary predecessor Peter. From Nefertiti, the Maid of Orleans and Elizabeth I down to modern times, women leaders have left their mark. The 1970s alone have seen no fewer than four female heads of state: Israel's Golda Meir, India's Indira Gandhi, Sri Lanka's Sirimavo Bandaranaike and Argentina's Isabelita Perón, who took over the presidency last week on the death of her husband...
...countries rimming the area (India, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, Kenya and Singapore)-and U.S. congressional critics as well-fear that the base will increase big-power rivalries in the region. Last week Australia's Prime Minister Gough Whitlam joined the chorus of critics, saying that he would try to persuade Britain's Labor government to abrogate the agreement made by former Prime Minister Edward Heath. So far, Harold Wilson's new government has said only that the plan, like all foreign policy issues, was under "review...
...Last year U.N. membership jumped to 135 nations with the admission of the two Germanys and the island nation of (choose one): A) Barbados, B) Sri Lanka, C) the Bahamas, D) Guadeloupe. This question, and 99 others, are all part of the 41st annual TIME Current Affairs Test, which has been distributed during the past month to high school classrooms across...
...gasoline distributors, calculated by some experts to run as high as $500 million. The long-range effectiveness of that strategy obviously is doubtful; some publications complain that the UP) government is shielding them f from economic reality with the same paternalistic censorship that it applies to books and films. Sri Lanka (formerly called Ceylon) more realistically plans to cushion the crisis by jacking up its own prices for bunkering fuel. The island nation sits at a critical junction of shipping lanes and refuels many passing vessels...