Word: linea
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Bazaar Economy. For the moment, the displaced Spaniards are harder hit than Gibraltar. The Madrid government eventually hopes to absorb them in an industrial complex abuilding outside La Linea de la Conception, the Spanish border town. Because of manpower economies and increasing mechanization, Gibraltar calculates it can replace them with only 1,000 skilled workers brought in from elsewhere. Says Chief Minister Sir Joshua Abraham Hassan: "We have problems, but in the long run the Spaniards have done us a favor...
...through the night the red beacon on top of the great rock flashes out its insistent and seemingly perpetual message: dash dash dot, dash dot dot dot. In the nearby Spanish villages of La Linea and San Roque and across the Campo plains to the mountains beyond, the people know that the Morse code signal stands for the letters G and B: Great Britain. The light is a constant reminder to the Spaniards that Gibraltar is British, as it has been ever since Britain seized it from Spain 263 years...
Spain rejected their vote for Britain on the grounds that the legitimate Gibraltarians are not the present ones but the villagers in La Linea and San Roque and across the bay in Algeciras, whose ancestors fled the invading British in 1704. (The United Nations, which supports this view, also refused to accept the referendum.) To show its displeasure at Britain's insistence on keeping the rock, Spain has imposed on Gibraltar a series of annoyances, ranging from a slash in the number of Spanish men workers (from 14,500 to 6,000) who cross daily into the colony...
...Gibraltar, Spain has waged a war of pinpricks. First, it refused to grant new permits for Spanish laborers to commute to work on the Rock, thus denying the colony necessary manpower. Next it slowed down auto traffic onto the Rock by insisting on interminable inspections at La Linea...
...Linea, Spain...