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...NATO has 16 members, but France does not belong to the organization's military wing. Iceland, which has no armed forces, has no Defense Minister. As usual, however, it was represented at the ministerial meeting by an ambassador...
...fight the case and, if Nicaragua wins, simply to ignore the decision. That might lead to an even greater loss of face among the community of nations. Nonetheless, the move would by no means be unprecedented. Over the past 15 years, several nations, including such upstanding international citizens as Iceland, India and France, have refused to submit to the panel's rulings. Yet the most recent example of defiance occurred when Iran ignored a 1980 judgment from the court to pay reparations for seizing the U.S. embassy in Tehran. The U.S. is clearly not eager to follow the Iranian...
...holiday. There were no newspapers, no television broadcasts, no mail deliveries and only intermittent telephone service. With state-operated liquor stores shuttered, restaurant wine and whisky stocks were being drained by thirsty diners. Indeed, as a strike by 11,000 government and private-sector employees crippled public services in Iceland, supplies of almost everything that makes life interesting on the edge of the Arctic Circle were disappearing faster than icicles in a spring thaw...
...Soviet maneuvers, like similar ones conducted by the NATO navies a month ago, presupposed that in a NATO-Warsaw Pact conflict, a crucial fighting area would be the Norwegian Sea, between Norway and Iceland. The northern reaches of the Norwegian Sea and the Barents Sea constitute the Soviet Union's "ocean bastion," where its submarines move freely with their cargo of nuclear-tipped intercontinental ballistic missiles. To prevent NATO'S killer subs and surface submarine hunters from entering the area during a war, the Soviets figure that they must totally control those waters north of the line stretching...
Eggert T. Dagbjartsson '86, of Iceland and Currier House, received treatment for bruises at University Health Services...