Bush administration officials, the Democratic leadership on Capitol Hill, and most Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) at the UN support it. So do the American Petroleum Institute, the Chamber of Shipping of America, and AT&T. With this cast of supporters, something fishy is going on.
It’s the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, but its detractors still use its old name: the Law of the Sea Treaty, or LOST. LOST was originally drafted at the end of the Carter administration, but was scuttled President Reagan.
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