Article: Gibraltar on the rocks: the American stake in a sovereignty dispute.

PROTESTS, JEERS, AND CURSES greeted British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw on a May 3, 2002 visit to Gibraltar. In view of Britain's role as administering power and de facto protector of the small but strategic Mediterranean territory -- and in view of the overwhelming pro-British sentiment of the local government and inhabitants -- such tumult seized media attention in Europe. It hardly garnered a column-inch, however, in America. One of the last remnants of the far-flung British Empire, Gibraltar and its fate nonetheless possess considerable significance for the United States. How Prime Minister Tony Blair and his Labour cabinet are addressing Gibraltar should therefore ...

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