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...based his precise location on what seemed to be large stone walk-ways leading from the rivers, similar to those built by the Northmen in Iceland and Greenland. Those stones were pushed aside for highways in the 1940s and have never been dated. Perhaps this is a sinister plot to play with history perpetrated by a powerful Cambridge ethnic group, one that would rather celebrate Columbus...
...government controls the supply of paper and since World War II has granted the press important tax concessions. Whatever the motive, most French newsmen managed to ignore the ail too visible symptoms of Pompidou's ill health until the President's meeting with Richard Nixon in Iceland last May. When American journalists reported on Pompidou's sickly appearance and speculated on the cause, French publications began to take note of it. Revealing photos were widely published, and some commentators openly called on the government to provide information about the President's health. None was forthcoming...
While Pompidou's health has long been unmentionable to French spokesmen, the fact is that President Nixon was so alarmed by the French President's appearance last summer when the two of them held a minisummit in Iceland that the U.S. embassy in Paris assigned a man to a Pompidou watch. He saw what other curious observers have noted too: gradually Pompidou has reduced his schedule to almost a blank page. When he addressed the Gaullist Party faithful in Poitiers three weeks ago, precautions were taken to preserve his strength. An armchair was placed close...
...least one of the world's wars ended last week without an intervention by Henry Kissinger. After 15 months of bizarre skirmishing on the high seas, the third cod war between Britain and Iceland (TIME, June 4) was settled quietly in an exchange of notes. The war, which began in September 1972, ended after a total of 65 warp cuttings, 15 naval collisions or bumps involving British trawlers and Icelandic coast guard boats, the firing of 24 rounds of ammunition-live and blank. The peace also ended a threat by Iceland to shut down the NATO base at Keflavik...
...both sides retreated with some satisfaction. Britain can keep on fishing within Iceland's claimed 50-mile limit, at least until next year, when a U.N.-sponsored conference will redefine the scope of disputed territorial waters round the world. Britain has promised to reduce its total catch to 130,000 tons, 30,000 less than last year's haul. As for Iceland, it clearly felt that the publicity was worth the war in dramatizing the plight of small coastal states dependent on their fisheries for survival...