WARNING ON RADIOACTIVE POLLUTION OF THE SEAS
Dr. Arvid Pardo, representative of Malta at the United Nations, warned the Political Committee of the General Assenbly November 1 that indiscriminate dumping of radioactive wastes in the oceans as presently practiced by such powers as the United States could prevent mankind from utilizing the incalculable food and mineral resources of the sea botton.
One of the members of the U.S. Congress, he said, had insinuated that "somebody" must have been behind his move.
Dr. Pardo did not identify the
congressman, but answered by explaining:
"The Maltese islands are situated in the
center of the Mediterranean. We are natu-
rally vitally interested in the sea which
we live and breathe."
The U.S. is situated between two
oceans but the majority of its rulers ap-
pear to have no vital interest in then,
considering the Atlantic and the Pacific
to be two convenient cesspools, mere ex-
tensions of the contaminated waterways of
their own country, and not major re-
sources belonging to all of humanity.