Word: icelander
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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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...
London immediately rejected Iceland's right to extend its sovereignty unilaterally. British trawlers continued to cast their nets up to twelve miles from the Icelandic coast. In response, Icelandic gunboats cut the warps and traps of British trawlers. Two weeks ago, London claims, a gunboat called Tyr (god of war and victory) attempted to board the trawler Lord Alexander and fired two warning shots across...
...Iceland denies that any such incident took place. Nonetheless, the British government ordered the Royal Navy frigates HMS Plymouth, Cleopatra and Jupiter to accompany the British fishing trawlers. All are armed with missiles and carry torpedo-bearing helicopters. Said Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Joseph Godber: "The Navy is not going to stand by and see our trawlers chivied by Icelandic gunboats...