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Article: SINK PROPOSED TREATY CONTROLLING OCEAN USE.(MAIN)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
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- March 31, 1994
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Byline: William Safire
LONDON LOST is a loser, but the U.S. is getting ready to sign on.
The Law of the Sea Treaty its apt acronym LOST has been ratified by 60 nations and will come into force on Nov. 16 of this year.
The big question one that will affect global business on and under the sea for generations is whether the U.S. will subscribe to what third-world leaders and international bureaucrats hail as ``the constitution of the oceans.''
I have long argued we should not. Although many of the treaty's navigational and fishing provisions are unobjectionable, the core of the new international law is a collectivist cartel that ...