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...dinner given for the two leaders midway through their summit meeting in Iceland last week, Richard Nixon hoisted a glass to Georges Pompidou and offered the French President both a gracious toast and a telling reminder...
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...
...been pursuing since September. Britain had suggested taking the dispute to the International Court of Justice or to the 14-member North-East Atlantic Fisheries Commission. It also volunteered to reduce its annual catch by about 30%-to 145,000 tons. For another, the move was bound to antagonize Iceland's left-leaning government, which already had doubts about letting British and other NATO planes use Keflavik air base...
...Iceland is not much interested in any interim negotiations with Britain...