Word: gibraltars
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...choir sang Rock of Ages and a cheering crowd waved Union Jacks, the civil governor of the province of Cadiz, Mariano Baquedano, last week placed a key in the brass lock of the gate that for 16 years had separated Spain from the British crown colony of Gibraltar. The lock would not budge. Embarrassed, Baquedano handed the key to a Spanish policeman, who also wrestled nervously with the reluctant mechanism. At one minute past the appointed hour of midnight, the lock finally gave way, and the large green gate swung open...
Meanwhile, the King has cultivated abroad an unlikely assortment of friends. Morocco, which sits strategically on the southern bank of the Strait of Gibraltar, is considered by Washington to be a useful ally and a potentially valuable airbase. In return, the U.S. provides Hassan with $140 million in aid and an arsenal of sophisticated arms. Nonetheless, the King remains very much his own master, as evidenced by his recent treaty with Libya, a major U.S. foe. He apparently hopes that the surprise agreement may help revive his stricken economy with infusions of Libyan oil and investment...
Fair enough, but because the physical and psychological costs can be so high, the search for an explanation is understandable. Bird had done one long row with a friend in 1974, from Gibraltar to St. Lucia. By 1980, he says, the idea of rowing across the Pacific had filled his mind until "I couldn't think of anything else. It almost shouted and screamed at me all night...
...geography?... Above all, we comprise the great Caucasian family of white peoples ...") Fodor's is especially trustworthy on hotels and restaurants. A knowledgeable, well-organized, basically middle-class peregrination through 33 European countries, colonies and principalities that leaves no worthy stones unturned, even if they are in Albania, Gibraltar or Liechtenstein...
...status of Gibraltar. It is governed by the Treaty of Utrecht of 1713, and again the governing thing is the wishes of the people of Gibraltar. I have always found great difficulty with the U.S. in not understanding this. The U.S. is founded on freedom and self-determination and democracy. Why do they find difficulty in applying that to the Falklands or to Gibraltar...