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...Yarmouth-Thor collision-there were no casualties-was the latest incident in the increasingly nasty "cod war" between Great Britain and Iceland (TIME, Dec. 29). What started out as a semicomical high seas skirmish over Iceland's unilateral claim last October to a 200-mile territorial fishing limit, has become a tense crisis for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization. Two weeks ago, Iceland broke diplomatic relations with Great Britain...
...mile fishing limit causing the trouble stems from Iceland's attempts to save a key segment of its economy. The tiny island country (pop. 219,000) wants more control over fishing rights in its coastal areas to maintain fish stocks, especially cod. Sales of cod account for fully 40% of Iceland's exports, but this vital crop could vanish in a few years, Icelanders claim, unless drastic conservation measures are taken. Even British officials concede that cod stocks are dwindling, but argue that the situation is not so perilous as Iceland says...
Dangerous Game. Last fall Iceland proposed that Britain limit its trawlers to 65,000 tons of cod each year caught within the 200-mile limit. Faced with the idling of as many as 6,500 British trawlermen and fish-industry workers, London countered with a proposed limit of 110,000 tons...
...enhance the political clout of the Communist-oriented "People's Alliance," which has eleven seats in Reykiavik's 1,000-year-old Parliament. It might also benefit the Soviet Union, whose trawlers, during the cod war with Britain have scrupulously observed Iceland's 200-mile fishing limit...
Maps, analemmas, collaged owls and jigsawed parrots, mirrors, watchsprings, scraps of tulle, cones and cork balls, wine glasses, sodium-browned photographs of long-dead dancers, tiny drawers filled with red sand-there is no apparent limit to the variety that found its way into Cornell's boxes, and any list of them begins to sound more like incantation than description...