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Administration pushes dangerous law of the sea treaty.(Inside Track)(Brief article)
President Bush startled conservatives in his own party in 2005 with his support for U.S. ratification of the United Nations Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST). The Republican rank-and-file has adamantly opposed this effort to give the UN regulatory and taxing powers over all the world's oceans and territorial seas since President Reagan torpedoed U.S. participation in the LOST scheme in the 1980s. Besides granting unaccountable UN bureaucrats power over navigation, marine life, fisheries, and minerals, LOST would provide the UN with enormous revenues, potentially in the hundreds of billions of dollars. President ...
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