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...really writing a constitution." The Caracas delegates cannot just draw lines on the map the way Pope Alexander VI did when he split world navigation rights between Spain and Portugal in 1493. Rather, they have a three-dimensional task: they must apportion resources (fish, minerals), rights (transit, overflight) and responsibilities (environmental protection, resource conservation) among a host of competing interests. "If you know a good tranquilizer salesman, send him on down," cracks a delegate. "He'll get rich...
...drain on domestic petroleum reserves, declared in 1945 that the nation owned the resources on and under its continental shelf, which extends as much as 700 miles out to sea (off Alaska). He did not claim either the fish in the water or any rights over ship transit. But a few other nations, starting with Chile in 1947, drew no such distinctions and declared that they owned the waters extending for various distances from their coasts. Today, while many countries still abide by the archaic three-mile limit, most do not. Russia, for instance, claims twelve miles; Iceland, 50 miles...
...does not particularly extend to other areas of society. As long as truckers get their fuel and their loads, and can drive untroubled on the roads, he has little or no complaint with American society. He is opposed to any form of socialism beyond social security, and attacks mass transit with a vengeance...
...former law instructor and attorney for the National Labor Relations Board Schroeder is a Portland, Ore., native, graduated Phi Beta Kappa in three years from the University of Minnesota and earned a Harvard doctorate. In her re-election campaign she is emphasizing the need for congressional reform, improved mass transit and better child-care facilities...
Michael Sovern, 41. The dean of Columbia University's Law School is a skillful labor mediator (earlier this year he helped resolve a dispute that could have led to a transit strike) as well as an imaginative educator (he has proposed a program in which students will serve as apprentice lawyers). Severn was summa cum laude at Columbia, took his law degree there before joining the faculty in 1957. After the spring riots in 1968, he helped establish a university senate that has kept the campus cool ever since. Two years later he was appointed dean. Although he avoids...