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Arctic issue similar to Libya TORONTO (CP) — There are similarites between current American military action off Libya and the voyage of the U.S. icebreaker Polar Sea through the Northwest Passage last year, a Canadian expert on international law said Tuesday. “There is a closer parallel in these two situations than anyone has realized so far,” said Prof. Gerald Morris of the University of Toronto law school. “When Canadians are looking at what's happening off Libya, they should have half an eye on the unresolved situation in the Aretic. The U.S. is still saying to Canada, "You can't close the passage in,’ and we're saying, ‘Yes we can.’ “It’s the same sort of thing as the Libyan situati®h but presumably we won't fire any missiles at U.S. ships.” The hostilities off Libya, in which its military has missiles at U.S. aircraft and the Americans have attacked warships and a Libyan missile base, arise from a long-standing over ‘ship of the Gulf of Sidra. The body of water stretches from the Libyan city of Misurata on the western shore to Benghazi on the eastern shore, an area of 388,500 square kilometres. Gorbachev slams U.S. MOSCOW (AP) — Soviet terday, American weapons leader Mikhail Gorbachev said today that the United States has shown its “imper- ial bandit face” in its armed elashes with Libya. Gorbachev spoke about chev's first reported public comment on the U.S.-Libyan clashes in the Mediterranean, although the official Soviet media condemned the U.S. actions in earlier reports and commentaries. “The imperial bandit face NOTICE H. L. Keenleyside Lock Shut down April 1 to 4 inclusive. __4 Please contact 365-3115 to determine availability on April 5 & 6 were used against indepen dent and soverign Libya. Now, the U.S.A. is not stint- ing words to justify that act of aggression.” Gorbachev said the United States had planned in ad- sanctions against Libya were “econ- . omic terror” that followed months of psychological and to the world public as a whole and an encroachment on Libya announced in 1973 that it considers the entire gulf to be part of its internal waters and drew a border line from cape to cape that leader Moammar Khadafy calls “the line of death.” The country also claims a 19-kilometre zone of territorial waters measured from its coastline. At the International Law of the Sea Conference in 1979, the U.S. agreed to accept a 19-kilometre limit for territorial rights for most countries, although it was not a party to the United Nations convention. But that was all it accepted, while the line Khadafy has drawn to contain the Gulf of Sidra is 195 kilometres offshore. grounds for its claims in international law. “But I also think that the way the U.S. has challenged the Libyan position is not in accordance with the idea that you settle such disputes as far as possible by legal means or through diplomatic negotiations,” he said. He pointed out that Canada is in « somewhat similar position to Libya because the Arctie Waters Pollution Act passed by former prime minister Pierre Trudeau's government in 1970 draws a territorial line 160 kilometres out into the Aretic Sea. Canada also claims on a historical basis that the waters The U.S. position is also based on the 1958 C. on the Territorial Sea and Contiguous Zone which allows countries to extend their internal waters to entire coastal embayments that are less than 38 kilometres wide between the low water marks of the natural entrance points. Under this convention, where the bay is wider, only the part that can be enclosed by a 38-kilometre line from shore to shore can be declared internal waters. The Gulf of Sidra is 442 kilometres wide. Morris said he believes the U.S. legal position “probably has some strength to it” and that Libya has only weak within Nh are internal waters and some lines drawn by Canada from headland to headland extend well over 160 kilometres. The 1970 act was passed soon after a controversial, unauthorized voyage of the U.S. tanker Manhattan through the Northwest Passage. But the U.S. continued to insist over the years that the passage is an international strait and sent the icebreaker Polar Sea through it last year without asking Canada’s permission. Morris believes, however, that Canada is on the right side of the legal argument in the Arctic issue. SUICIDE SQUADS URGED Libya's official radio urged Arab suicide squads today to attack United States embassies and other interests worldwide following armed clashes between U.S. and Libyan forces in the disputed Gulf of Sidra off the Libyan coast. The radio exhorted the “Arab nation” to be transformed “in its entirety into suicide squads and into human bombs, missiles and aircraft to deter and resist terrorism and destroy it for good.” The radio commentary was monitored by the BBC in London. The Libyan radio commentary said: “Oh heroes of our Arab nation, let your missiles and suicide cells pursue American terrorist embassies and interests wherever they may be.” Earlier today, a radical Palestinian guerrilla faction, Abu Nidal’s Fatah Revolutionary Council, similisry NOTICE H.L. Keenleyside Downstream water levels will be fluctuated April 1 to 4. Water levels will be lower during the day. 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Moammer Khadafy’s claim to the entire Gulf of Sidra up to 40 miles offshore. e ae laa Biman naa. nr arial aers end 12 miles “the "ge recognized international limit. wore : U.S. officials say the clash began Monday with Libya firing six missiles at American navy planes on manoeuvres in the gulf. The United States retaliated against patrol boats and a missile site on shore, U.S. officials said. There were no reports of Libyan missile firings Tuesday. There also were no reports of fighting today. Associated Press photographer Giulio Broglio said Tripoli, Libya's capital, was quiet, with no signs of military activity. Nothing is going on that you can see; people are going to school and to work,” he reported. U.S. officials said there was another “event” Tuesday involving a Libyan patrol ship, but no further details were immediately forthcoming. U.S. officials in Washi issued icting and Libyans continued to fire on U.S. warplanes. They later justified the second round of firing by saying the navy's 30-ship armada had orders declaring any Libyan plane or boat approaching them to have hostile intentions. “We have been given ample evidence of hostile Libyan intentions and we will defend ourselves,” Pentagon spokesman Robert Sims said, referring to Libya’s launching of ground-to-air missiles against U.S. planes on Monday. The U.S. military actions continued to draw favorable response from Congress on Tuesday. “We are asserting the right of passage, one of the oldest American foreign policy positions,” said Represen- tative Thomas Foley (D-Wash.), the third-ranking D in the House leadershii White House spokesman Larry Speakes said it was “levelled against him. 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