Word: keflavik
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...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, 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 the new coalition government of Iceland, which includes two Communist Ministers, asked the Americans to depart from their strategically important Keflavik base. Negotiations on the request have yet to begin, however, and they could take up to four years before resulting in any move...
...huge, 14-wheel AN-22, the Soviet Union's equivalent of the C-5A, lifted off smoothly from Iceland's Keflavik airfield. Minutes later a sister ship followed, bearing the same blue and white colors. The two giant Soviet aircraft, heavily laden, were on the second leg of an 8,000-mile journey from northern Russia to deliver relief supplies to earthquake-stricken Peru...
...unaccustomed air runs to South America have presented the Russians with a rare opportunity. Observers at Keflavik noted that Soviet pilots, while approaching the jointly operated U.S.Danish airfield, regularly made an unnecessarily wide circle, taking care to keep their wings level and the plane steady. The observers suspected that the Soviets were carefully photographing the field-one that Russian planes almost never visit-and their suspicions were confirmed when they saw men in the tail camera ports of some planes. It may be assumed that the cameramen also keep busy when Moscow's mercy fleet circles Halifax and Bogot...