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Elizabethan epithets and their modern equivalents resounded in the ancient British trawler ports of Grimsby and Hull last week, and the Queen's ministers sent off an ultimatum to Reykjavik that called up memories of gunboats and a whiff of grape. Reason: Iceland last week proclaimed, effective Sept. 1, a twelve-mile fishing limit off its coasts, a zone drawn from the outermost points instead of bending like a ribbon to follow the contours of the coast...
...Iceland. Beginning in 1944, when two young Icelanders who had flown with Canada's R.C.A.F. trudged across the country's largest glacier to salvage a crashed Stinson seaplane, it started out as a creaky air service between coastal fishing villages, sent its first DC-4 from Reykjavik to Copenhagen in 1947. It got a transatlantic permit from the U.S. Civil Aeronautics Board in 1952, and chose Nick Craig, a Pan American sales executive, as board chairman, president and chief executive. "I did everything but fly the planes," says Craig. Flying the planes, as stipulated by the country...
...five minutes of silence (the last occasion was their deliverance from the Nazis). In Montevideo. Uruguay, students burned the Soviet consulate to the ground. In South Viet Nam, all 123 members of the Legislative Assembly paraded through the streets of Saigon, wearing mourning white in sympathy for Hungary. In Reykjavik, Icelanders roughed up a Communist Member of Parliament, and demands rose for a reconsideration of Iceland's decision to eject U.S. forces from the NATO air base there...
Patriot's Proof. At a time when critics from Reykjavik to London to New Delhi are potshotting at the U.S., there was very little freshness in Mollet's words; the newness was that they should come from the mouth of a French Premier. Only three weeks before, Mollet's Foreign Minister and Fellow Socialist Christian Pineau had made a calculatingly indiscreet speech suggesting that there was no longer a common purpose in Western foreign policy (TIME, March 12). Behind such taunts and twists were a whole hatful of political factors, not the least Mollet...
...Reykjavik Isaac Stern wowed his audience-he had to repeat his recital in the 800-seat theater - but his success was a mere icicle on an iceberg, compared with the Russian effort. Every year the Soviet Union dispatches culture delegations containing four to ten fine artists, e.g., soloists from the Leningrad ballet, violinists, singers, pianists, even chess players, and once sent Composer Aram (Sabre Dance) Khachaturian to conduct Iceland's national symphony. What makes Russian visits even more effective is the Russian practice of traveling to outlying communities to make music with local musicians...