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Article: NAVAL INSTITUTE SEMINAR FOCUSES ON DECLINE OF US MARITIME FLEET
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 28, 1987
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WASHINGTON - Ronald Reagan's maritime policy, or the lack
of one; deliberate violation of US cargo laws; a moribund ship
building industry and the fast-dying US Merchant Marine, which
competes with the Soviet Union's 2,500 ship commercial fleet, came
under a harsh spotlight here last week.
Emerging Thursday from a Naval Institute seminar was a
grim, disheartening picture of the US Merchant Marine.
Presentations at the seminar, "The Decline of the US Merchant
Marine," recalled the fleet as a cargo ship, her stern lifted high
and with smoke still coiling from her funnel, her men scrambling to
the boats, as she is about to take a final plunge.
Several hundred government, military, ...