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...slimy. Its liver is smelly. Its mouth droops and its eyes bulge outrageously. Even its character seems less than admirable: the cod submits meekly to any fishhook in sight. Yet the lowly Gadus morrhua is hardly friendless. Indeed, for the third time in 17 years, Great Britain and Iceland have deemed their attachment to the fish so vital that they are engaged in another "cod war" against each other...
...edges of steaming fissures and dodging red rivers of molten lava. Now they celebrate those exotic outlets for earth's potent forces in the most beautiful-and frightening-book on volcanoes ever assembled. Here, for example, is the black cone of Surtsey rising from the sea off Iceland in 1963, the Indonesian volcano Batur shooting lava bombs skyward in 1971, Italy's Stromboli still flaring like a Roman candle, and the lava lake of Zaire's Rugarama glowing as luridly as the lower pits of hell. As Absurdist Playwright Ionesco suggests in his introduction to Volcano...
...strike follows a day-long walkout by 60,000 Icelandic women--almost 100 per cent of Iceland's female population--on Saturday. The walkout disrupted many of the country's activities, including the publication of newspapers and other public communication...
Some top-level officials said the Administration was consulting its European allies about a means of imposing a kind of quarantine within the NATO alliance, should that become necessary. In a somewhat similar situation, ad hoc measures to ensure security were taken when Iceland had a Communist coalition...
Finally, the triangle is no more prone to disappearances than other busy ocean regions. In fact, a Navy spokesman notes, "many, many more disappearances" have occurred over the years in the heavily traveled Sable triangle, bounded by Sable Island (off Nova Scotia), the Azores and Iceland. His challenge to Charles Berlitz: "Why not a book on the Sable triangle...