The World - News from July 17, 1985
The Soviet Union announced that it will temporarily halt commercial whale hunting in the Antarctic during 1987. The announcement suggested a slight change in Moscow’s earlier objections to the International Whaling Commission’s call for a worldwide ban on commercial whaling starting this November. The ban, expected to last at least until 1990, was approved in 1982 in an effort to allow severely diminished whale populations to replenish.
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