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Although maintaining no military forces of its own, Iceland harbors one of the largest NATO air and missile bases containing several thousand NATO troops, hundreds of planes, and large-scale rocket installations. Lying midway between Moscow and New York on the Great Circle air route, the base at Keflavik would be a prime center of operations in the event of general...
...Communist party precipitated the present situation in Iceland, playing upon native chords of nationalism, anti-militarism, and resentment at the economic effects of the Keflavik project. Icelanders have never relished maintaining troops in their land, but realizing their importance to NATO, they have agreed to support a large military encampment. Unfortunately, many Icelanders now feel that the base is causing them more discomfort than they bargained for. Troops and foreign construction workers occasionally become involved in incidents with the populace. Furthermore, the base hires thousands of native Icelanders, to whom it pays wages far higher than they could otherwise receive...
...foreign troops, meaning the 5,000 U.S. soldiers and airmen who have been stationed in unarmed Iceland-at its own request-since 1951. Pulling out would deprive the U.S. of an important early-warning radar establishment halfway between New York and Moscow, and the strategic $100 million Keflavik air base, where a squadron of F-89s is stationed...
...chided by Icelanders for hanging on to its wartime bases in Iceland, the U.S. last week gave them up. It agreed to get its military personnel out of Iceland in six months, turn the war-built bases over to the infant republic. The only exception: U.S. civilians will man Keflavik airdrome, and U.S. planes may use it as long as occupation forces are in Germany. But pro-Soviet Icelanders immediately boggled even at that...