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...Gibraltar. Seized from Spain in 1704, this 2¼-sq.-mi. British dependency is still claimed by Spain. Talks over the Rock's future, due to begin last month, were postponed until June 25 because of the Falklands crisis...
...Harrier jump jets, and the newly recommissioned H.M.S. Intrepid, an amphibious assault vessel capable of carrying as many as 700 troops, eight landing craft and five helicopters. In addition, the government requisitioned the cruise liner Uganda, which last week disembarked 1,295 vacationing passengers in Naples before steaming to Gibraltar, where it will be converted into a 1,000-bed hospital ship. Meanwhile, the Royal Air Force was ferrying troops to Ascension Island, a British possession in the South Atlantic, to await the new task force. "The place is chockablock with soldiers, airmen and sailors," reported an eyewitness...
...political and trade association composed of its old possessions, now completely independent. Britain still claims only a clutch of 13 tiny dependencies, including the Falkland Islands, the British Virgins, Anguilla, St. Helena, Bermuda, Pitcairn Island and the uninhabited British Antarctic Territory. Britain's two most important holdings are Gibraltar, which Spain would like to reclaim, and the free-trade port of Hong Kong...
Last year was a rebuilding season during which the team saw a limited schedule. More noteworthy, it did not participate in what had become a Classic hallmark--the spring adventure to foreign lands. Over the past few years. Harvey and his team voyaged to Puerto Rico. Gibraltar and Cuba. This year's jaunt to Northern Europe is the first one which has been student organized...
Alone at last? Yes, but only after the royal yacht Britannia managed to shake off its accompanying flotilla of well-wishers at Gibraltar and run for the open Mediterranean, could its two passengers, Prince Charles, 32, and his new bride, Diana, 20, begin a fortnight of solitude and sightseeing...