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...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...
...power positions on both sides of the Iron Curtain. In the Soviet empire the melting process has produced popular uprising and high-level confusion as to how the empire should be managed (see below). In the free world it has showed itself in the nagging vitality of NATO, Iceland's decision to get rid ot U.S. troops, the division and rancors among the allies over Cyprus, Formosa, North Africa and Suez...
...months, while Iceland's NATO partners listened in silent apprehension, four of the island's five political parties vied in pre-election demands for the removal of the 5,000 U.S. troops from strategic Keflavik air base. Last week, full of such talk, Icelanders went to the polls in the uninterrupted light of the long northern...
...Independence Party of wing-collared Premier Olafur Thors, alone in wanting the Americans to stay, got the largest popular vote, up 5% from the election three years ago, but Iceland's complicated electoral laws gave it only 19 seats in the Althing (parliament), a loss of two seats. An alliance of Progressive and Social Democrat parties won a commanding 25 seats (two short of majority). Holding the balance of power with eight seats: the Communists. They are strong among fishermen (the Soviet bloc has replaced Britain as the leading market for Iceland's main crop, fish...
...Iceland's agitation against the U.S. base comes from a people who have had their independence from Denmark for only twelve years, have no army of their own and dislike having foreign troops around. Iceland has no intention of closing Keflavik air base, feels simply that it can handle the NATO base with less U.S. help. Progressive Leader Hermann ("The Wrestler") Jonasson, who will probably head a coalition government, admits that Iceland is not ready to take it over now. Under the base agreement, it would be 18 months before U.S. troops would have to leave. His party does...