Spain is to lift all restrictions on...

Spain is to lift all restrictions on passage to the British-held Rock of Gibraltar at midnight tonight, spurring hopes for more tourism to the 2.2-square-mile limestone rock. Traffic to the site, on a peninsula at the southern tip of Spain, was cut off by the late Spanish dictator Francisco Franco in June, 1969, in an attempt to force Britain to surrender the colony it had captured in 1704. In 1982, the gate was opened only to Spanish and Gibraltarian pedestrian traffic. Last November, Britain and Spain agreed to completely open the frontier as part of negotiations on the sovereignty dispute.