Word: gibraltarism
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...said he will rent to all comers after the Royal Navy pulls out in 1971. The big question in the Mediterranean is whether the Russians will move into the Algerian naval base at Mers-el-Kebir, which the French evacuated last month; it is only 315 miles east of Gibraltar. Russians have also used their influence with the Arabs to set up secret stockpiles of spare parts within trucking distance of Arab ports...
...observation about your article on Gibraltar [Sept. 22]: My family "discovered" the Costa del Sol, and an ancestor was admiral-governor of Gibraltar. I have very good friends of every kind there and would like to make a true and neutral comment: even if 99.2% voted against annexation to Spain, 99.9% would honestly wish an arrangement with Spain. But, as always, politics creates such complex problems that our short lives are dominated by a couple of people who, for the sake of their local pride, make thousands suffer-in this case...
...nearby Spanish villages of La Linea and San Roque and across the Campo plains to the mountains beyond, the people know that the Morse code signal stands for the letters G and B: Great Britain. The light is a constant reminder to the Spaniards that Gibraltar is British, as it has been ever since Britain seized it from Spain 263 years...
Last week Gibraltar proved that it is even more British than anyone had imagined. As the voters went to the polls for a special referendum to decide whether Gibraltar should remain with Britain or be turned back to Spain, the 2¼-sq-mi. crown colony was decked out in Union Jacks from its deepwater harbor to its 1,396-ft. summit. Stickers everywhere proclaimed such slogans as I'M O.K. WITH THE U.K. When the count was made, only 44 of the 12,237 voters opted for reunion with Spain. The rest-an astonishing 99.2%-preferred to retain...
...Linea and San Roque and across the bay in Algeciras, whose ancestors fled the invading British in 1704. (The United Nations, which supports this view, also refused to accept the referendum.) To show its displeasure at Britain's insistence on keeping the rock, Spain has imposed on Gibraltar a series of annoyances, ranging from a slash in the number of Spanish men workers (from 14,500 to 6,000) who cross daily into the colony to a ban on border crossings by all vehicles. The Spanish government seems to be laying the groundwork for an eventual sealing...