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...most nations, including the U.S. and the Soviet Union, observe a twelve-mile limit. They fear that the Santiago Declaration will set a precedent severely inhibiting free access to large sections of the seas. Already, half a dozen other Latin nations have announced a 200-mile limit, and Iceland recently proposed extending its fishing rights to 50 miles...
Preserving Leverage. In Washington, Secretary of State William Rogers canceled a scheduled trip to Iceland. After huddling with State Department advisers and conferring by telephone with Richard Nixon at the President's Key Biscayne retreat in Florida, Rogers announced his decision late last week to take the issue to the U.N. "The U.S. hopes that the Council can take prompt action on steps which could bring about a ceasefire, withdrawal of forces and an amelioration of the present threat to international peace and security," he said. But no one was optimistic about its outcome-and rightly...
Permanent Tinder. The most spectacular piece of testimony to surface came from Dellums himself, who released secret papers that explicitly indicated that the Department of Defense had a policy restricting the number of blacks sent to bases in Iceland. He said that the Government had reached a verbal agreement with Iceland at that nation's request. By 1963, the Icelandic government accepted two married black servicemen into the country, and the number has now increased to about 40. Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird could only plead that he had no control over previous administrations and that no such understandings...
...Vice Admiral L.V. Mizhin, deputy commander of the Soviet Baltic fleet, pointedly complained that an American cruiser had shown up in the Baltic Sea, and that West Germany had intensified its naval exercises there. The Soviets are on the verge of achieving their most concrete gain to date in Iceland, which is known as "the cork in the bottle" for the entire northern tier of NATO's defenses. From Iceland, U.S. Navy aircraft keep track of Russian craft moving through the Faeroe Channel and the Denmark Strait-including subs carrying Polaristype missiles targeted on U.S. cities. Last July...
...remain a plausible deterrent, NATO depends un a strategy of rapid reinforcement in time of crisis. Yet if Norway or Iceland were threatened, it would take an estimated ten days to two weeks for U.S. reinforcements to reach the northern flank, ten to 20 days for Britain's troops, and 30 days for Canada's. That assumes, of course, that they could even reach their destination through waters controlled by the Soviet northern fleet. Thus the real threat posed by Russia's dominance in the northern seas is to NATO's credibility and perhaps...