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The Race for Riches on the Ocean Floor by Alexander Cockburn James Ridgeway the Howard Hughes mystery ship, A the Glomar Pacific Explorer, last studied summer, in prowled its fascination about every move was by a small group of businessmen 6000 miles away in Gloucester, a sleepy little town on the Chesapeake Bay. For these men Howard Hughes and his ungainly barge had become a specter. They feared Hughes might suddenly emerge the winner in what to American industry had become a ferocious struggle, the race to win control of the minerals lying at the bottom of the ocean. Gloucester is the headquarters of Deepsea Ventures, a subsidiary of Tenneco, the international energy conglomerate, which, together with partners in Japan, Belgium and the U.S., is swiftly working to become the first company in the world to open a mine on the ocean floor. As the Hughes ship edged into Hawaiian waters, the Deepsea men The Hughes Glomar Explorer, used in a CIA effort to retrieve a sunken Soviet watched nervously.

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But the Deepsea men held steady. Then, on Nov. 15, 1974, they made their own daring move. Richard Greenwald, the company lawyer, was dispatched to the courthouse in Gloucester where he filed a mining claim. To Kissinger's office Later that day a messenger brought the same claim along with a request for "diplomatic protection" to the office of Henry Kissinger, U.S.

Secretary of State. Within a day or so details of the claim reached ambassadors of the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, France, and other powers. Soon the claim was published in newspapers from Tokyo to Johannesburg to Caracas. The claim was extraordinary. For the mine which Deepsea Ventures staked out was 800 miles west of Mexico, 650 miles from the nearest dry land--a tiny French-owned islet--and about 15,000 feet below surface of the Pacific.

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