Word: icelandic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...slimy. Its liver is smelly. Its mouth droops and its eyes bulge outrageously. Even its character seems less than admirable: the cod submits meekly to any fishhook in sight. Yet the lowly Gadus morrhua is hardly friendless. Indeed, for the third time in 17 years, Great Britain and Iceland have deemed their attachment to the fish so vital that they are engaged in another "cod war" against each other...
...three conflicts broke out when Iceland, which depends on fishing for 80% of its exports, unilaterally decided to extend its territorial fishing limit. Last July the Reykjavik government declared that no other nation, without prior agreement, could fish within 200 miles of Icelandic territory; the previous limit, established in 1972, had been 50 miles. Icelandic authorities claimed that new scientific studies showed a drastic decline in young cod, those that have not yet reached breeding age. If these underage fish continued to be harvested before reproducing, the total cod catch would decline ruinously within a few years...
London agreed that new conservation measures were needed. But, said Agriculture, Fisheries and Food Minister Frederick Peart, "we do not consider that the present state of the stock is so grave as to require extreme measures." The new rules proposed by Iceland would reduce the British catch, much of which winds up in fish 'n' chips, from 130,000 tons a year to 65,000 tons. Negotiations broke off last month after Iceland rejected London's counterproposal of 110,000 tons...
...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, and the lava lake of Zaire's Rugarama glowing as luridly as the lower pits of hell. As Absurdist Playwright Ionesco suggests in his introduction to Volcano...
...strike follows a day-long walkout by 60,000 Icelandic women--almost 100 per cent of Iceland's female population--on Saturday. The walkout disrupted many of the country's activities, including the publication of newspapers and other public communication...