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From: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
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Subject: Re: Three mile limit for the USA?
Message-ID: <537@looking.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 12-May-86 18:48:19 EDT
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Posted: Mon May 12 18:48:19 1986
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Reply-To: brad@looking.UUCP (Brad Templeton)
Organization: Looking Glass Software Ltd. Waterloo, Ontario
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Summary: 

In article <1531@ecsvax.UUCP> dgary@ecsvax.UUCP (D Gary Grady) writes:
>
>By the way, the US claims only a three-mile territorial limit for
>itself, but recognises a 12-mile limit for nations asserting one.  It's
>hard to be more reasonable than that, but there's just no pleasing some
>people...
>-- 
>D Gary Grady

I don't know exactly what you mean by "territorial limit", but the USA
had been involved in fishing disputes with Canada for a long, long time.
We're talking 200 mile limits here, sometimes.

Also, last summer the "Polar Sea" from the USA sailed through the Northwest
passage - a Canadian archipelago - and deliberately did not ask permission
in spite of repeated protests from Canadian officials.

-- 
Brad Templeton, Looking Glass Software Ltd. - Waterloo, Ontario 519/884-7473