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...establish their areas of control in the Barents Sea and its continental shelf. Not only do the Soviets want to protect their strategic position around Murmansk, they also seek increased fishing rights and access to the potential oil and gas reserves in the 59,870 sq. mi. under dispute. After seven years of negotiations on the question, says a Norwegian diplomat, "we've got absolutely nowhere...
...that might be caused by the presence of men. In all, five helicopters flew over the area, occasionally whirring down to land on the baseball field outside the prison that the convicts share amiably with the local Little League team. Officials claimed they had sealed off a 10-sq.-mi. area, but other agents began taking the precautionary step of checking highways and airports in Georgia, the Carolinas, Virginia and Kentucky...
...Arabs in the occupied territories-but perhaps particularly for the 650,000 Palestinians on the West Bank-the decade since the '67 war has been a time of frustration, humiliation and resentment. Israeli troops still maintain law-and-order-often with brusque insensitivity-in their 2,270-sq.-mi. homeland of rolling hills and desert...
...easy enough-the U.L.C. ordains ministers for $2 down and $2 a month (TIME. Feb. 10, 1975)-but that does not account for the mass ordination. The turn to religion is a protest against the fact that more than a sixth of the town's 84 sq. mi. were already owned by several tax-exempt religious groups (Zen Buddhists, Tibetan monks) and one educational group (the Center for Conservation). That left taxpayers bearing huge burdens to support their local roads and schools. One farmer, for example, was making about $8,000 a year off his 330 acres-and paying...
...police the 2.2 million sq. mi. added to U.S. fishing waters-a fourfold increase in the area covered by the old law-the Coast Guard plans to add four planes, five helicopters and six ships, at a total cost of $90 million...