|
|
|
|
A New Wave of Crime at Sea |
| Section: CURRENT ISSUES / ANALYSIS |
| Author: Gerhard Mueller and Freda Adler |
| Publication:
The World & I Online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/1986 |
| Size: 2,421 Words, 14,712 Characters |
|
In the eastern Mediterranean a band of terrorists commandeer a large cruise liner and threaten to kill all aboard if rescue is attempted and if their demands are not met.
In a New Zealand port, French agents bomb and sink a vessel that was about to demonstrate against nuclear pollution of the South Pacific, killing a crew member.
In Portuguese waters, ships of a NATO fleet are attacked with grenades.
New Jersey's fishing fleet is idled because owners cannot afford a threefold increase in insurance, occasioned by large insurance losses elsewhere in the country, where trawlers are diverted into drug smuggling. Yet the Coast Guard budget faces a cut so severe that regular antidrug-smuggling patrols will have to cease.
The year 1985 has not been a good one on the oceans. It will be remembered as the year in which ocean crime shocked the conscience of the world and posed a series of questions to thoughtful Americans: what is going on at sea, the three-quarters of the earth's surface covered by water? Is there a crime wave out there? Are we at war on the high seas? With whom? What does it mean for people ashore? Are these disturbing events at sea isolated instances, or is there a grand scheme? Who is attacking whom? Is anybody doing anything about it?
Seajacked
The terrorist takeover of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro may have been the first such attack to awaken Americans from oceanic complacency - perhaps b...
Read Full Article
...g nations. That, and a vastly increased international capacity, perhaps organized by the maritime industry itself or monitoring the movement and ownership of vessels, their crew, passengers, and cargo, are absolutely necessary to end the current era of high seas criminality, the twelfth such era since the time of the Phoenicians. Peace on earth, as a goal must include peace on the waters.
(1,507 of 14,712 characters)
|
|
|
Publication Details
(The World & I Online) |
|
The World & I Online is a
comprehensive academic resource that encompasses a broad range of
articles by scholars and experts in the areas of Global Studies,
Liberal Arts, Fine & Applied Arts, General Science, and Spanish.
Originally published monthly in print as The World & I, our site
includes the complete contents since 1986 and continues to publish
a new issue online each month. |
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
