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...Agreed, four weeks after Iceland dropped its demand that the U.S. withdraw its forces from the strategic Keflavik air base, to lend Iceland $4,000,000 to finance essential imports and continue its economic development programs...
...Heroes. Around the world as the Christmas festoons went up, the contrasting impact began to show. Only last spring, Iceland (pop. 158,000), lulled by Soviet coos of coexistence, had asked U.S. troops and airmen to pull out of the strategic air base of Keflavik; last week Iceland considered Budapest and reversed itself, asking the U.S. troops and airmen to please stay...
...months, while Iceland's NATO partners listened in silent apprehension, four of the island's five political parties vied in pre-election demands for the removal of the 5,000 U.S. troops from strategic Keflavik air base. Last week, full of such talk, Icelanders went to the polls in the uninterrupted light of the long northern...
Iceland's agitation against the U.S. base comes from a people who have had their independence from Denmark for only twelve years, have no army of their own and dislike having foreign troops around. Iceland has no intention of closing Keflavik air base, feels simply that it can handle the NATO base with less U.S. help. Progressive Leader Hermann ("The Wrestler") Jonasson, who will probably head a coalition government, admits that Iceland is not ready to take it over now. Under the base agreement, it would be 18 months before U.S. troops would have to leave. His party does...
...Dhahran-with Saudi Arabia's King Saud holding out for big new shipments of U.S. arms. State watched with apprehension Iceland's election campaign in which four of the five contending parties were boasting about how they intended to kick the U.S. out of its base at Keflavik...