Word: iceland
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Agreed, four weeks after Iceland dropped its demand that the U.S. withdraw its forces from the strategic Keflavik air base, to lend Iceland $4,000,000 to finance essential imports and continue its economic development programs...
...England fishing industry that he raise the tariff on groundfish fillets (i.e., boneless cuts stripped from pollock, cod, haddock, other bottom fish) and thus protect beleaguered U.S. ground fishermen against further imports (now 128 million Ibs. -annually, three times higher than in 1945), chiefly from Canada, Iceland and Norway. While fully aware of the domestic problem, explained the President, "I am ... reluctant to impose a barrier to our trade with friendly nations"-and especially with nations whose "economic strength is of strategic importance to us." Moreover, "I am not persuaded that [the tariff hike] would constitute a sound step...
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...Heroes. Around the world as the Christmas festoons went up, the contrasting impact began to show. Only last spring, Iceland (pop. 158,000), lulled by Soviet coos of coexistence, had asked U.S. troops and airmen to pull out of the strategic air base of Keflavik; last week Iceland considered Budapest and reversed itself, asking the U.S. troops and airmen to please stay...
...minutes of silence (the last occasion was their deliverance from the Nazis). In Montevideo. Uruguay, students burned the Soviet consulate to the ground. In South Viet Nam, all 123 members of the Legislative Assembly paraded through the streets of Saigon, wearing mourning white in sympathy for Hungary. In Reykjavik, Icelanders roughed up a Communist Member of Parliament, and demands rose for a reconsideration of Iceland's decision to eject U.S. forces from the NATO air base there...