by Rene Wadlow

In an earlier article Arctic Oil and the Law of the Seize, I mentioned that some such as Scott Borgerson, who teaches maritime studies at the US Coast Guard Academy and is a fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, are looking to the Antarctic Treaty of 1959 as a model to prevent an Arctic race for oil by avoiding the provisions of the Law of the Sea Convention which the USA has not signed. [node:read-more:link]

 
The following information was relayed to me by Betty Bland, Secretary and record keeper of TOS-USA.

"Dr. R Gandhi, grandson of Mohandus Gandhi, is visiting prof. at U of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana.  I don't know for how long, but can we see about having him speak here? [node:read-more:link]