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Word: gibraltar (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dispute between England and Spain over Gibraltar [March 5], I sympathize with the Spanish government. After all, how would we feel if England claimed Manhattan as one of her colonies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 19, 1965 | 3/19/1965 | See Source »

Part of Franco's blockade consists of withholding labor from the Rock. Even before the dispute, Madrid stopped giving new work permits to Spaniards for Gibraltar jobs, and in ten years their number has fallen from 14,500 to 9,000. Some 800 Gibraltarians living on the mainland were recently ordered to leave Spain and to return to the colony. Traffic across the border is now slowed to a crawl by Spanish customs guards, who take a full hour to examine each car; scarcely 14 a day are cleared...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gibraltar: The Embattled Rock | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

Stretched Blood. The blockade is hurting. The snail-pace behavior of the customs guards has crippled tourism. Gibraltar has tried to take up the slack with public-works projects and by passing laws to permit tax havens for small industry as well as Panama-style flags-of-convenience for shipowners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gibraltar: The Embattled Rock | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

Zooming Jets. Last week eight British jet fighters paused at Gibraltar en route to Norway. To the Gibraltarians' delight, the jets, in a show of force, zoomed round and round the Rock, made low passes over the water off the Spanish coast. Britain may well be prepared to offer two concessions to Spain: a crackdown on the smuggling annoyance, and a guarantee that no matter how much self-government the Rock obtains, it will never become a base for any hostility toward Spain...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gibraltar: The Embattled Rock | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

...London will not knuckle under to harassment. In the nuclear age, Gibraltar's strategic importance has sharply diminished, but the symbolic value of the fortress known to Homer as the Pillar of Hercules remains. Said one British official: "We'll keep the Rock if we have to supply it by airlift until the Spanish cut out this nonsense...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Gibraltar: The Embattled Rock | 3/5/1965 | See Source »

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