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...seemed a strange way for allies to behave. Britain, a member of NATO, dispatched three gunships into what Iceland, a fellow NATO member, regards as its own territorial waters. Iceland retaliated by issuing a strongly worded protest accusing its ally of aggression, recalling its ambassador for consultations, and threatening to take the issue to the U.N. Security Council...
...squabble between the two seafaring neighbors was the latest episode in a long-running argument over valuable fishing rights in the cold waters near the Arctic Circle. For the third time since World War II, Iceland and Britain are near blows in what citizens of both nations call...
...current round of quarreling started last September, when Iceland unilaterally extended its sovereignty from twelve to 50 miles out to sea, and declared the area off limits to foreign trawlers. If left unchallenged, Iceland's declaration could hurt the British economy, which suffers from rising food prices. Last year Britain caught $62 million worth of cod in waters off Iceland-21 % of its total fish catch...
GEOTHERMAL POWER. Though underground reservoirs of steam and water have long been tapped in Iceland, New Zealand, Italy and Japan, the only large geothermal enterprise in the U.S. is a steam field known as the Geysers in California's Sonoma County. There, steam from deep in the earth drives turbogenerators that produce some 302,000 kw. of electricity, roughly 40% of San Francisco's total requirements...
...heat and volcanic ash to land at an airstrip only 200 yds. from the eruption. Within 3½ hours, everyone on Heimaey had been evacuated. About 200 police, firemen and rescue workers stayed behind to salvage what they could of Vestmannaey-jar, the island's only town and Iceland's most important fishing center. Miraculously, there were no casualties...