Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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...
...stage to front-page news. During the past year, Pompidou, now 61, has gained at least 20 Ibs., ballooning from bourgeois rotundity to sickly flabbiness. His complexion has become blotchy, and he has begun to walk stiffly and clumsily. Descending from his jet to meet with President Nixon in Iceland late last month, he stumbled and nearly fell, though he was clinging firmly to both handrails...
...Iceland was to yield the top-level "political decisions" that would provide the U.S. with a framework for the forthcoming technical negotiations on trade, troops and monetary reform...
...Before his expeditions to Iceland and Paris, Henry Kissinger tarried in Manhattan long enough to celebrate his 50th birthday. TV's Barbara Walters toasted his contribution to Women's Lib. He has, she said, "made careers for countless women." Peter Peterson, former Secretary of Commerce, claimed that he had seen Henry cross 1973 A.D. off an official document and write 50 A.K. Peterson's remark, replied Kissinger, "illustrated the closeness and warmth that has characterized the White House...