Word: zoned
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...defensive measure against massive surprise attack, and it follows, therefore, that if the danger of such attack were removed, the need for this defense could be correspondingly lessened . . . Let us attack the cause of the Soviet concerns-not their symptoms." The U.S. proposal: the prompt establishment of a northern zone of inspection against surprise attack...
...radiation zone is by no means a "death belt" that will keep humans from reaching space, but it might do some damage to men who live for a long time in a satellite. Van Allen figured that the radiation level inside the satellite might reach about 0.06 roentgens per hour. At this rate a man would receive in five hours his maximum weekly permissible dose of 0.3 roentgens. A small amount of lead shielding would reduce the dose to a supportable level. The crew of an outbound spaceship need not worry about the radiation belt. If moving fast enough...
...Arctic (TIME, April 28), mustered up such a huge majority (possibly nine to one) that the U.S.S.R. withdrew the complaint. Then the U.S. called on the U.N. Security Council to reopen debate on the U.S. proposal, rejected by the U.S.S.R. last summer, for an Arctic "open skies" inspection zone...
Fearful that twelve miles might win, the U.S. finally agreed to turn its face from 165 years of tradition, and offered to compromise on a six-mile territorial sea limit, plus an additional six-mile fishing zone, with the proviso that any foreign nation that "regularly for the period of five years" had been fishing in that zone should be allowed to continue. This, said Arthur Dean, represented "extraordinary sacrifices" by the U.S., but "those who came here believing in the straight twelve-mile limit have not budged an inch...
Chaos, Contd. Britain backed the compromise, but Canada did not. Last week, in full plenary session, Canada's proposal of a twelve-mile exclusive fishing zone was defeated. A Russian twelve-mile territorial sea proposal mustered only 21 ayes to 47 nays. The closest to come to victory, with 45 votes for and 33 against, was the U.S. proposal, but it still fell seven votes short of the necessary two-thirds majority. In disgust the meeting gave...