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...reports of what may have been Soviet subs. Only last week, in the Navy's secret ASW plotting room at Norfolk, Va., a black, diamond-shaped marker indicating a "goblin"-a Russian submarine-went up on the wall-to-wall map. The goblin's position: perilously near Iceland, where NATO maintains an important airbase...
...came out from under the ice pack, surfaced between Greenland and Spitsbergen right where it expected to be, broke radio silence for the first time since leaving Hawaii to send off a three-word encrypted signal to the Navy that said something like: "Here we are!" Thirteen miles off Iceland a helicopter arrived out of nowhere, lifted Anderson off for a preplanned hop to Iceland's Keflavik Airfield, where a Navy plane was waiting to fly him to Washington. The helicopter lowered the crew's first outside-world tribute direct from the President of the U.S. It read...
...armed reminder of the mighty, miles-away, 1,500-plus thermonuclear bombers of Strategic Air Command. The key results of Admiral Holloway's power: i) Lebanon and nearby Jordan-buttressed by 2,000 British paratroops-were still untouched by the revolutionary fire in Iraq; 2) U.S. allies from Iceland to the Philippines got proof that the U.S. would deploy and fight if need be to save small friendly powers from subversion; 3) Arab nationalism, whether led by Nasser or not, had been shown that...
This was strong talk between two NATO allies. But for generations 25% of all British fishermen's catch has been taken just beyond the three-mile limit, in the haddock-and cod-crammed waters of the Icelandic shelf. At stake is nothing less than the traditionally cheap fish-'n'-chips fare of the great seafaring nation. Iceland explained it acted only from "the need to conserve" the cod and haddock. Icelanders themselves now net 48% of the catch (up 17% since before the war), and it furnishes 90% of their exports. Biggest customer: Soviet Russia, which last...
...British, their dander up, were convinced that hostile anglers are fishing in Iceland's troubled waters. Iceland's Fisheries and Trade Minister Ludvik Joseps-son is a Communist, and forced the twelve-mile limit through the country's coalition Cabinet against the objection of more NATO-minded ministers. The Soviet ambassador, who has signed agreements with Comrade Josepsson to buy about a third of Iceland's catch, was quick to proclaim Russian support of the new twelve-mile decree. The British Admiralty accordingly let it be known that four new frigates might shortly be added...