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the Northwest Passage
without informing Ottawa,
both as strategic exercises
and to underscore U.S.
claims in the area. It is also
likely that the Soviets do the
same."’

The Yanks, it is clear, are
simply taking up the military
slack in the arctic. One can
hardly blamne them, since
Canada remains basically
asleep on watch.

It isn’t as though the.

Americans have failed to
give us plenty of warning
that they intend to assume
the task of guardian of the
Arctic waters which we have
neglected. When the super-
tanker Manhattan crunched
through the passage in 1969
there was a brief flurry of
activity in Ottawa. ©

Calls were made for a
Class 8 icebreaker; capable

of patrolling the’ passage...
year round, to be. designed, .
but nothing -came of it: :
Listening» to Fisheries

Minister John Fraser
repeating the call fast
month—-16 years later—was
just plain depressing.
Retired vice-admiral
Douglas S. Boyle’s comment

on the situation in the Arctic,

was this: “If we want to
protect our sovereignty,
we've got to know where
they (boats and subs) are,
and what they’re up to.’”’ On
any given day, he added,

. “there are 300 to 400 ships

inside the Canadian area of
surveillance on the East
Coast alone, and 20 to 50
per cent of them will be
Soviet.”

I think the best line,
however, came from Vice-
Admizal Falls. ‘‘A nation
cannot have partial
sovereignty,’’ he observed,

.“any more than a woman
can be a little bit pregnant...

It is all or nothing.”

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comprehend. If the wimps in
the true north won’t stand
on guard, the Yanks will do
it for themselves. Can you.
blame them?

marine detection system is
Now in place between
Brodeur Peninsula and
Devon Island at the eastern
approach to the Northwest
Passage. How effective the
system is remains to be seen.

In the context of plans for
Star Wars, it should be ob-
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Passage is about to take a
quantum leap. A Soviet nu-
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the polar ice can strike at the
American heartland without
coming up for air.

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