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...served since Napoleonic days. In the end, Mintoff accepted a $36.4 million annual settlement, with the U.S., West Germany, Italy, The Netherlands and Belgium providing most of the increase. The formal signing of the agreement in London was accompanied by champagne. Mintoff drank heartily but British Defense Minister Lord Carrington refused to touch his glass. Relations were serene, however, until Mintoff's latest attempt to renegotiate the contract unilaterally. Last year's agreement, he complained, had been made before the British government allowed the pound sterling to float. Since this resulted in de facto devaluation, Mintoff said...
Manzini had made a bet of a bottle of champagne with Lord Carrington, the British Defense Minister, that a settlement would be reached. Manzini collected his bottle, but the price of the new agreement to his government will run to more than $50 million over the next seven years. Last week at the signing ceremony in London, glasses of champagne were duly raised in a toast to the successful completion of the negotiations; Lord Carrington left his glass untouched...
...British, who felt that a surrender to Mintoff now would only encourage him to ask for even more money in the future. Then both sides had second and more sober thoughts. Mintoff flew to Rome for a series of bargaining talks with Luns and British Defense Minister Lord Carrington. At week's end Mintoff came out smiling from one session to announce that his deadline, six hours before it was due to expire, had been extended. No agreement had been reached, and the game goes...
There were some signs that Britain may not want to pass the point of no return. In London, Defense Minister Lord Carrington canceled a Far East tour in order "to supervise the withdrawal of British forces"-or to be available if negotiations were resumed. But unless they are, the last troops could be out by March...
London was not impressed. Coolly rejecting the $11 million demand, British Defense Minister Lord Carrington laconically noted that Britain had paid its rent through March, and that it would be glad to pull out after then "unless Mr. Mintoff changes his mind." Mintoff had reason for second thoughts, in view of the fact that a British withdrawal would subtract something like $58 million a year from Malta's fragile economy. At week's end he extended the deadline for two weeks to "alleviate suffering of poor women and children among British dependents...