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...Potent Weapon. Iceland was outraged by what it regarded as continuing British aggression, and last week took its case to the U.N. Security Council. Icelandic Ambassador Ingvi Ingvarsson noted that both West Germany and Belgium had already agreed to limit their fishing and he demanded that Britain do the same. British Ambassador Ivor Richard blandly suggested further discussions between the two governments...
...said Icelandic Foreign Minister Einar Agustsson. "But they are Iceland's only natural resources and therefore not only important but a matter of life and death for us Icelanders. Without fish we haven't even a chance of survival." Tiny Iceland, moreover, believes that it has one potent weapon in its not-so-funny war with London. If Britain refuses to give in, it may well close NATO'S surveillance station in Keflavik-a key to the protection of Britain's Atlantic lifeline in case...
...Trotche," a ciudad perdida (lost city), or urban slum, less than half a mile from Mexico City's fashionable Paseo de la Reforma. It was early Saturday morning, but drunks were already weaving their way down the slope from a little clandestine tavern selling pulque, a cheap but potent drink that the Aztecs used during religious ceremonies. The people of El Trotche are at the bottom of Mexican society, which calls them paracaidistas (paratroopers) because they seem to parachute out of the sky onto any vacant piece of land. Then, like an army of ants, they hastily erect their...
Like John Kennedy, Johnson and Richard Nixon understood the might of television and tried to use it. They ultimately failed, according to Halberstam, because the one-eyed beast was just too potent. Johnson considered Walter Cronkite's call for an end to the Viet Nam War in 1968 such a setback, says Halberstam, that it solidified his resolve not to run for reelection. Nixon Subordinate John Ehrlichman, angered by CBS's abrasive White House correspondent Dan Rather, tried to have him transferred, but CBS News stood firm...
...Eugene Ionesco. 174 pages. Abrams. $35. Authors Maurice and Katia Krafft have spent most of their lives peering into craters reeking of sulfur smoke, standing on the edges of steaming fissures and dodging red rivers of molten lava. Now they celebrate those exotic outlets for earth's potent forces in the most beautiful-and frightening-book on volcanoes ever assembled. Here, for example, is the black cone of Surtsey rising from the sea off Iceland in 1963, the Indonesian volcano Batur shooting lava bombs skyward in 1971, Italy's Stromboli still flaring like a Roman candle...