A collection of memos, press releases, news clippings and articles, government reports and other items. Examples are: One note “From the Desk of Pam Smith” (7/20/77) re/ “Dear Karen: Enclosed is a copy of Ambassador Richardson’s press statement delivered at 2:00 p.m. today” - 5 page copy attached; 1 photocopy of “Editorials . . .Deep Sea Mining” (The San Diego Union, 7/25/77); small, stapled packet containing corresp. (Sept. 1976 – June 1977) between Congressman Wilson & Norman C. Wright (Minister, Mission Hills United Methodist Church) re/ Mr. Wright’s interest in the UN Law of the Sea & Congressman Wilson’s views on the subject; 1 office note (4/4/77) for “Mag/Ed/Doug/ Boss” re./ Pam Smith (Law of the Sea Office, Dept. of State) and “nominations to Advisory Committee LOS,” “Delegation to the New York Session” & “designate a staff member, who will need a confidential clearance;” 1 news clipping from the Congressional Record-House (3/24/77), pp. H2584 & H2585 re/ Wilson’s statement that “Government Regulations Are Strangling the Tuna Industry;” 2 constituent, pro-porpoise letters ( 2/23/ & 3/3/77) from Steven Mark Popko (La Mesa) & N. N. Morris (Santee) & Wilson’s replies (2/18/77) re/ their support for NMPA’s action to protect porpoises in the tuna fishing industry; stapled packet containing corresp. (Oct. 1975, Nov. 1975, Sept. 1976 & Mar. 1977) from Congressmen Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. & Bob Wilson, Press Notice, unsigned “Radio Copy” message & rough draft of unsigned letter re/ controversy over the 200-mile fishing zone & porpoise vs. tuna controversy; 1 photocopy of James Joseph, “The Bold Contender purse seine,” The Fish Boat (Jan. 1977), pp. 21-23, 45; 1 copy of CAT PLUS NEWS (Special Edition, Vol. 1, No. 4) re/ “Tuna Industry Speaks Out;” 2 constituent, pro-porpoise letters (3/77) from Mrs. Virginia Mendez (San Diego) & G. C. Bayless (Cardiff-by-the-Sea) & Wilson’s replies (3/21/77) re/ support for strengthening the Marine Mammal Protection Act of 1972; 1 letter from Michael J. Foote (Project Manager, H.D. Reed, Inc.) & Wilson’s reply (3/21/77) re/ support for the tuna industry & concern over environmental regulations; small packet of corresp. (1/21/77) from Sidney R. Galler (Dep. Asst., Sec. for Environmental Affairs, Dept. of Commerce) to Congressman Wilson & attached photocopies of “Foreign Fishing Monitored” & “Summary Management Plan Status (PMP’s/FMP’s) [& chart of ] Meetings of Regional Fishery Management Councils” (5/6/77); 1 letter (10/22/76) from Congressman Paul N. McCloskey, Jr. to Wilson & attached photocopy of two pages from the Congressional Record-House (Vol. 122, No. 149, Sept. 29, 1976) re/ “Law of the Sea Status Report” by Congressmen McCloskey, Jr. & Benjamin Gilman; photocopy of 1 letter (10/18/76) from T. Vincent Learson (Special Representative of the President for the Law of the Sea Conference) to Congressman Wilson & attached photocopies of “an agenda for the November 4 and 5 meetings of the Advisory Committee on the Law of the Sea” re/ Mr. Learson’s commentaries on the proposed meeting & the complexity of the issues involved; 1 large packet containing a cover letter (9/27/76) from T. Vincent Learson (Ambassador at Large, Dept. of State) to Wilson & attached “document on the August-September 1976 [5th] session of the Law of the Sea Conference: Report of the US Delegation and Reports of the Chairmen of Committees I, II, and III” (approx. 66 pp.); 1 copy of Ocean Education Project & United Methodist Church, Soundings Law of the Sea News and Commentary (Vol. 2, No. 1, Oct. 1976) re/ “The Law of the Sea Conference. What Happened at the Fifth Session? What Prospect for the Sixth?;” 1 letter (5/20/76) from John Norton Moore (Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center For Scholars) to Wilson & attached “copy of [his] recent testimony before the Senate Foreign Relations and Commerce Committees re/ “suggestions for strengthening the organization of the Government for the making of a national oceans policy” (18 pp.); 1 letter (7/23/76) from John Norton Moore (Dir., Center for Ocean Law and Policy, Univ. of Virginia) & Wilson’s reply (8/4/76) re/ Professor Moore’s “draft statement for Oceans ’76;” 1 photocopy of “Memorandum For: LOS Advisory Committee Members” from T. Vincent Learson & attached photocopy of “Agenda for Advisory Committee Meeting, June 4-5, 1976;” 1 letter (5/11/76) from Brandon Becker (Articles Editor, Volume 14, San Diego Law Review, USD) & Wilson’s reply (5/21/76) re/ Mr. Becker’s request for details on the 3rd UN Conference on the Law of the Sea; 1 photocopy of a letter (5/9/76) from Alexander J. Oleander (law student, USD) & Wilson’s reply (5/18/76) re/ Mr. Oleander’s request for information on the subject of the Law of the Sea.