Lögberg-Heimskringla - 05.06.1992, Blaðsíða 1

Lögberg
neimsKringia
North America’s lcelandic
Weekly Newspaper
Lögberg Stofnað 14. janúar 1888 Heimskringla Stofnað 9. september 1886
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From When to Where, by John K. Hjalmarson...............2
lcelandic-Canadian citizen honoured in Guatemala........3
Poet's Corner ..........................................4
lceland Diary: A Western-lcelander finds the Homeland,
by Edith Bjomsson (continued)..................... 6
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106.Árgangur Föstudagur 5. júní 1992 Númer 21
106thYear Publications Mail Registration No. 1667 Friday, 5 June 1992 Number 21
Jón Baldvin Hannibalsson, lceland’s Minister of Foreign Affairs, is second from right.
Ministerial Meeting in Reykjavík
A ministerial meeting of the European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was held at Hótel Saga in Reykjavík
late last month. At the meeting, it was decided that the EFTA Court of Justice, which will be established in connection
with the European Economic Area (EEA), will be located in Geneva, Switzerland; it was also decided how the costs
of the EEA agreement would be shared among the EFTA member countries. It is expected that Iceland’s share will
amount to 200 million krónur annually. A large portion of that money will be retumed to the country in the form
of a number of funds to support various research and cultural activities. The EFTA ministers agreed that all the
languages of the member countries are equally important.
Keep
it
cool
Approximately 200 Ger-
mans gathered for an exqui-
site feast on Vatnajökull,
Europe’s largest glacier, at
the invitation of Cointreau
in Germany. The group was
made up of both customers
and German journalists.
Vatnajökull was chosen to
emphasize that Cointreau
liqueur should be served on
ice.

News
Happy with the eatch:
The crew members of the boat Ófeigur
Islands) are very happy with their first
catch of the lobster season, in the
waters southeast of the islands.
Ona millson to
^ h<»rring museum:
The ÍslandsbankifBank of lceland) Cul-
in support of the construction of a
herring museum in Síglufjörður. Next:
year, 90 years will have passed since
the boginning of the herring índustry
in that town.
Suspicious air travel:
Þorgeír Þorsteinsson, saysthat lcelan-
dic authorities have for the past three
counterparts in the monitoríng of sus-
picious air travel across the Atlantic.
Accordíng to Mr. Þorsteinsson, ít is
believed that small private planes,
which are transportíng illegal drugsto
ma in land Europe from the US.may be
refuelling in lceland.
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Afloat on fire
the shrímp boat Litlanes ÍS 608, from
ísafjörður, after it suddenly caught fire
in Hýnaflái. The three crew members
abandoned ship and went into a life-
boat when they were unableto put out
the fire. The crew of the boat
Ingimundur gamli HU, which wös fish-
ing in the vicíníty, picked them up.
Transiated from iceiandlc
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