The World - News from April 3, 1986
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Britain accused Spain of violating Gibraltar’s territorial waters and airspace. A Foreign Office spokesman said that the Spanish aircraft carrier Dedalo sailed within the three-mile territorial limit that Britain claims around the colony and that two of the Dedalo’s helicopters took off and flew close to Gibraltar’s international airport. Spain rejected the British protest. The incidents heightened tension over Gibraltar, a British colony long claimed by Spain, and came three weeks before a scheduled state visit to Britain by Spain’s King Juan Carlos I.
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