Word: gibraltarism
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...Ever since the 1713 Treaty of Utrecht gave Britain sovereignty over the craggy outcrop that juts from the southern edge of Andalusia, Spain has been trying to win Gibraltar back. And Gibraltar, which has voted to maintain British sovereignty, isn't happy about it. Over the centuries, the conflict has taken the form of a handful of failed sieges, a 1960s appeal by Spain to the U.N. to include Gibraltar in its decolonization measures, and endless expressions of outrage over everything from docked nuclear submarines to a visit from Princess Anne. The 2006 creation of a Tripartite Forum for Dialogue...
...waters. The longtime dispute - Britain claims the first three nautical miles around the peninsula, while Spain holds those waters to be its own - flared anew in May when the European Commission, at Madrid's behest, designated some of those waters as a marine conservation area under Spain's jurisdiction. Gibraltar appealed the decision, decrying it as a breach of international law and warning that it threatened to upset plans for the upcoming Tripartite meeting (dialogues previously took place in Granada and London). "This is an additional banana skin thrown by Spain at the feet of the [negotiations] process," declared Gibraltar...
...grip so tight it was if he would never let go. I felt him shaking, his chest lurching against me. Then I felt a warm wetness on my neck and heard his sobs, his jagged gasps. The man I had never seen shed a tear, my Rock of Gibraltar, was crying in my arms...
Etched onto the wall of a sentry box in Gibraltar is an unsigned indictment from an unknown soldier. You imagine him there many wars ago, keeping watch and weighing his prospects for a normal life...
...Falklander A Gallup poll taken last February showed that 65% of the British felt that some sort of negotiations with Argentina should take place. Instead, the Prime Minister is considering promulgating a sort of Thatcher Doctrine. The policy would hold that in British outposts, such as the Falklands and Gibraltar, the views of the inhabitants would remain paramount under all circumstances...