Legal aspects of terrorism at sea Glen Plant* INTRODUCTION On 7 October 1985‚ four armed men claiming to represent the Palestine Liberation Front took control of the Italian-flag cruise liner Achille Lauro on the high seas about thirty miles off Port Said and held the crew and passengers hostage. They had boarded her in port in Genoa posing as legitimate passengers. They demanded the release of fifty Palestinian prisoners held in Israel and threatened to blow up the ship if intervention were
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Sea anemones are members of the Phylum Cnidarian. The cnidarians include the anemones‚ jellyfish‚ coral‚ Portuguese man-of-war and hydroids. Their characteristics include a soft body with two tissue layers arranged around a central gut cavity. A ring of tentacles surrounds a central mouth‚ and the tentacles endure stinging cells which contain nematocysts used to capture food and for defense. ("Marine Life Profile: Sea Anemones”) The two basic body forms among the cnidarians are the polyp‚ which looks
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Riders to the sea Summary of the play Riders to the Sea by John Millington Synge Dustin Buckley‚ Yahoo Contributor Network Jul 12‚ 2010 "Share your voice on Yahoo websites. Start Here." * ------------------------------------------------- MORE: * ------------------------------------------------- Millington * ------------------------------------------------- Bundling FlagPost a comment The play begins with Maurya‚ who has fallen into a fitful sleep. She is certain that her son
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Territorial Sea is established up to 12 miles from the baseline of the coast. This is an extension of the land and the coastal state exerts full sovereignty over the area. It is an area of national jurisdiction. Also establishes a contiguous zone where the coastal State may exercise the control necessary to (1) prevent infringement of its customs‚ fiscal‚ immigration or sanitary laws and regulations (2) punish infringement of the above laws and regulations committed within its territory or territorial
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Within ‘The Rime of The Ancient Mariner’ it seems to be that Coleridge uses a lot of religious meanings throughout this poem. Coleridge uses this to explore the Mariner and his supernatural beings. Coleridge is showing the readers the gothic and mysterious feel towards this poem‚ also showing us the immoral and imaginative sides to this. The gothic novel/poems was popular in England in the 1790’s and came replete with castles‚ prisons‚ mysterious forces‚ gloomy landscapes‚ and sexual perversions
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‘The Village by the Sea’ is a wonderful book which contains a lot to learn from. Since the industrial revolution swept the world‚ people have forgotten their roots. They have forgotten how their ancestors lived in a place where the only sort of excitement they would receive was spending time with their families and friends. As the people sit inside their air conditioned home‚ people have to go bathe in the river and oceans. Anita Desai has beautifully captured the essence of how a family lives in
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EK115008S The Deep Sea (2012) It is odd that a planet with 65% of its surface covered by ocean and 57% by 1000+m of deep-sea is called the ‘Earth’. Some 49% of the globe’s surface is 3-6 km below the ocean waves and the average ocean depth is 3.8 km. The deep sea is dark‚ devoid of plants but home to many animals which have been collected on hooks and lines‚ in nets‚ from the stomachs of other deep-sea beasts‚ viewed and photographed from tethered cameras‚ ROVs and deep-sea submersibles. Yet
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INTRODUCTION Give a brief description in your own words of the objectives and aims of this practical. The aim of this practical is to investigate how the autonomic nervous system (ANS) affects the motility in the gastrointestinal tract‚ by experimenting with the release of neurotransmitters. A. RESPONSES TO NERVE STIMULATION Attach a copy of your experimental recordings showing a period of spontaneous contractions and the response to stimulating the nerves
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at risk. In Ernest Hemingway’s Old Man and The Sea‚ Santiago‚ an old Cuban fisherman‚ has not caught a fish for 84 days and struggles to protect his pride. When the old man gets the biggest fish he has ever seen on his hook‚ he is determined to catch it. Throughout the fight with the huge marlin‚ Santiago’s persistence never lessens. He is a true fisherman‚ and he is a hero. Even though Santiago is weak‚ exhausted‚ and worn out‚ he conquers the sea and preserves his pride. Determination is very
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layer of sediment settles on the ocean floor What are terrigenous and pelagic sediments? Pelagic sediment consists of organic and inorganic matter and is not restricted to the abyssal plain‚ but occurs throughout the oceans. The entire surface of the sea floor is volcanic in origin. What do oceanic ridge systems represent? The ridges are connected in a single system snaking across the undersea landscape from one ocean to another. What is found at the crest of the oceanic ridges? A cliff rimmed valley
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